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Microsoft Office 64-Bit

The Level-Up: What I've Learned in the Four Years Since My Last Post

A journey through Power BI, PowerPivot, PowerQuery, XLOOKUP, and all the goodies of 64-bit Microsoft Office.

Google Cloud architecture serving assets via a Load Balancer

Serving Assets via CDN with Google Cloud

Serve static content via a Google Cloud CDN to improve load times. Fine-tune your load balancer and caching to match your app’s needs.

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Async Python HTTP Requests with AIOHTTP & AIOFiles

Handle hundreds of HTTP requests, disk writes, and other I/O-bound tasks with quintessential async Python libraries.

Intro to Asynchronous Python with Asyncio

Intro to Asynchronous Python with Asyncio

Execute multiple tasks concurrently in Python with Asyncio: Python's built-in async library.

Managing Multiple Versions of Python on Ubuntu 20.04

Managing Multiple Versions of Python on Ubuntu 20.04

Easily install and manage multiple versions of Python on Ubuntu 20.04 or newer.

Create Google BigQuery Tables via the Python SDK

Create Google BigQuery Tables via the Python SDK

Use Google Cloud's Python SDK to insert large datasets into Google BigQuery, enjoy the benefits of schema detection, and manipulating data programmatically.

Create Cloud-hosted Charts with Plotly Chart Studio

Create Cloud-hosted Charts with Plotly Chart Studio

Use Pandas and Plotly to create cloud-hosted data visualizations on-demand in Python.

Deploy Serverless Golang Functions with Netlify

Deploy Serverless Golang Functions with Netlify

Write and deploy Golang Lambda Functions to your GatsbyJS site on Netlify.

Scrape Structured Data with Python and Extruct

Scrape Structured Data with Python and Extruct

Supercharge your scraper to extract quality page metadata by parsing JSON-LD data via Python's extruct library.

Build it with Terraform

Build it with Terraform

Provision Google Cloud infrastructure using Hashicorp Terraform. Spin up instances of CloudSQL, Redis, Kubernetes and more.