Monthly Archives: March 2020

Creating a GeoSpatial Index with Python and MongoDB

By Databases, MongoDB, Python, Software Engineering

It’s a fairly common use case: given some latitude and longitude coordinates, find results close to those points. Fortunately for us application developers, MongoDB makes these sorts of queries relatively painless. It has built-in support for geospatial querying that enable applications to search the dataset for points near a given set of coordinates. In order

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ReactJS + Docker – Environment Variables

By Docker, Infrastructure as Code, Microservices, React, Software Engineering

React Environment Variables Packaging your ReactJS application as a Docker container provides all of the usual Docker benefits: portability, ease of maintenance, cloud support, standardization, and on and on and on. One pitfall of using client-side rendering with React is with the use of environment variables. Lets look at a quick example: In this example,

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