The Art of Scalable Code: Engineering Software That Grows with Demand
By prioritizing modularity, efficiency, and fault tolerance, engineers can create software that is prepared for the challenges of tomorrow.
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Beyond Coding: How to Become a High-Impact Software Engineer
By going beyond coding and embracing a more holistic approach, software engineers can leave a lasting mark on the industry.
Creating a GeoSpatial Index with Python and MongoDB
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
ReactJS + Docker – Environment Variables
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,
Interview Question: Neighbor’s Lights
Technical interviews for Software Engineers are notorious for obscure questions. The goal for the interviewer is to observe how you approach a problem and to try to understand your thought process. The better you can convey your thought process in words while coming up with a correct solution to the problem, the better your chances
Python First Impressions – Part 4: Conclusion
In the previous three posts of this series I evaluated three core tenets of object oriented programming and how well (or not well) Python implements them. Those tenets were polymorphism, inheritance, and encapsulation. Before I state my conclusion, I want to point out one more aspect of object oriented programming in Python which I find
Python First Impressions – Part 3: Encapsulation
If you have not already done so, go back and read Part 1 and Part 2 of this series before proceeding. So, we left off with a tie ball game. I gave Python a point for its approach to polymorphism but it lost a point for its sloppy inheritance support. So, it all comes down
Python First Impressions – Part 2: Inheritance
If you’re coming from Part 1, you probably think I’m a pretty big fan of Python. Well here is where I start to set the record straight. As I mentioned in the previous post, I believe that all good object oriented programming languages should have proper support for inheritance. But, what exactly is proper with
Python First Impressions – Part 1: Polymorphism
I’ve been writing code for over half of my life. Used Javascript, C, Perl, PHP, Java, Ruby, C#, and even Haskell. But never — not ONCE — have I ever written a single line of Python. With Python making a surge in popularity due to some popular AI and ML libraries, I figured I would
Terraform and Amazon ECS – Part 4
This is the final post of this series. If you have not yet done so, go back and read the previous posts. Terraform and Amazon ECS – Part 1 Terraform and Amazon ECS – Part 2 Terraform and Amazon ECS – Part 3 This post will wrap up with the creation of the service definitions