Todd Birchard (page 10)

119 Posts

New York City

Engineer with an ongoing identity crisis. Breaks everything before learning best practices. Completely normal and emotionally stable.

Amazon Web Services

Building an API with Amazon's API Gateway

Leverage AWS' API Gateway to create an API which fetches records from an RDS database.

Google Cloud

Deploy Isolated Applications with Google App Engine

Doing everything to avoid server configuration or any mild discomfort.

MySQL

MySQL, Google Cloud, and a REST API that Generates Itself

Deploy a MySQL database that auto-creates endpoints for itself.

Google Cloud

Working With Google Cloud Functions

GCP scores a victory by trivializing serverless functions.

Python

Extract Nested Data From Complex JSON

Never manually walk through complex JSON objects again by using this function.

JavaScript

Compile Frontend JavaScript with Babel and Gulp

Using ECMAScript functions on the frontend the quick and dirty way.

Flask

Configuring Your Flask App

Best practices on configuring Flask neatly and securely. Handle environment-specific configurations with ease and keep sensitive values out of your source code.

Python

Reading and Writing to CSVs in Python

Read information from existing CSVs or write/modify your own. Keep your script lightweight by leveraging Python's built-in I/O and CSV libraries.