Transform Pub/Sub to Firestore Database in GCP

Rusty Divine Apache, Articles, Cloud, Data Science, Databases, Google Cloud Platform, Python Leave a Comment

This year, the client I work with has started exploring the offerings in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) after investing years into the Microsoft Azure cloud. The opportunity has allowed me to explore a few new technologies that this post will cover and that you will hopefully find interesting.

In short, I was tasked with transforming Pub/Sub to Firestore Database in GCP. The scenario explored in this post takes an FHIR healthcare data feed, extracts telephone and email information, and then stores that in a Firestore database.

[Video] Data Mining/Science: Supervised Time-Series Model

Keyhole Software Development Technologies & Tools, Educational Event, PostgreSQL, Python, Videos 1 Comment

In this video, Alex presents an introduction to data science “big ideas” relevant to the model, an explanation of its data modeling process, and a demonstration of the real-life machine learning solution implemented with Python, Postgres SQL, and H2O (an open-source machine learning algorithm). Multiple data sources and technologies were combined to create an accurate model that allows farmers and recreationists to make actionable insights about the future. A few questions and answers round out the discussion.

VS Codeโ€™s Development Container: A Stepping Stone To IaC

Luke Patterson Articles, AWS, Cloud, Development Technologies & Tools, DevOps, Python, Tutorial Leave a Comment

In this post, l explain how we used Visual Studio Codeโ€™s Development Container feature as a stepping stone in our long-term effort to achieve Collaborative Infrastructure as Code. This one step in the process gave a versioned, repeatable working environment and allowed us time to determine the next steps in the effort to achieve IaC.

ArcGIS Developer Mapping APIs Quickstart

Todd Horn API Development, Articles, Development Technologies & Tools, Programming, Python, Tutorial Leave a Comment

I have always been interested in maps and GIS data. Whether I am planning a hike or a backpacking outing for scouts or helping the Ozark Trail Association with their website, trail building, and maintenance or needing directions from one place to another, a good map and mapping tools are a necessity.

ArcGIS has always been the gold standard for anything related to maps and GIS data. So, in this blog, weโ€™ll take a look at some of the mapping options that are available with an ArcGIS Developer account and their Mapping APIs.

Why Functional Programming

James Slaughter Articles, Development Technologies & Tools, JavaScript, Python, React 1 Comment

React has gotten a little funny of late – a few years ago, it was normal to embrace the Object-Oriented paradigm, writing each component as a class and doing lots of this-binding.

Today, however, hooks and functional components have taken over React, and with it, a style of programming unusual for front-end frameworks is growing in popularity: Functional Programming.

This programming style has been in use for many years: Lisp, Haskell, Clojure, and OCaml are all established, though mainly out of the mainstream, languages with a rich history and broad application. Thinking โ€˜functions are first-class citizensโ€™ sounds strange, especially to new JavaScript developers who have spent most of their time in Python or Java that come from an Object-Oriented perspective.

Thatโ€™s why in this post, we will go over the basics of Functional Programming, how we compose functions, a handy implementation of a โ€˜pipeโ€™ function that will compose functions, the process of currying and functions-as-return-value, and how we can use these concepts in React using Higher-Order Components.