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Todd Birchard

Todd Birchard

New York City
Wasted youth as a Product Manager, enjoying life as a Lead Software Engineer. Happily retired from rapidly propping up doomed startups. Focused on creating meaningful work and relationships.
Optimize GatsbyJS Performance & Build Times with Netlify

Optimize GatsbyJS Performance & Build Times with Netlify

Speed up Gatsby by utilizing Netlify features like CDN, asset compression, redirects, caching, and analytics.
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Oct 14, 2019 • 10 mins
JAMStack
Create a Twitter Widget in GatsbyJS

Create a Twitter Widget in GatsbyJS

Create bespoke social widgets in GatsbyJS with source plugins like gatsby-source-twitter.
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Oct 10, 2019 • 10 mins
GatsbyJS
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Understanding GatsbyJS: Create Your First Gatsby Theme

Generate a static site on the JAMStack with Ghost, GatsbyJS, and Netlify. Create your own theme and learn how Gatsby generates websites.
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Sep 21, 2019 • 18 mins
GatsbyJS
Building Java Projects with Gradle

Building Java Projects with Gradle

Simply your Java projects by automating dependency resolution, testing, and more with Gradle.
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Aug 13, 2019 • 9 mins
Java
Using Amazon Redshift as your Data Warehouse

Using Amazon Redshift as your Data Warehouse

Get the most out of Redshift by performance tuning your cluster and learning how to query your data optimally.
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Jul 29, 2019 • 12 mins
Data Warehouses
SQLAlchemy Data Models In a Laboratory

Relationships Between SQLAlchemy Data Models

Create database table models & relationships with SQLAlchemy's ORM. Create one-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-one, and many-to-many relationships.
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Jul 11, 2019 • 11 mins
SQLAlchemy
Join and Aggregate PySpark DataFrames

Join and Aggregate PySpark DataFrames

Perform SQL-like joins and aggregations on your PySpark DataFrames.
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Jun 24, 2019 • 7 mins
Spark
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Manage Files in Google Cloud Storage With Python

Manage files programmatically in your Google Cloud Storage bucket using the `google-cloud-storage` Python library.
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Jun 18, 2019 • 8 mins
Google Cloud
Working with PySpark RDDs

Working with PySpark RDDs

Working with Spark's original data structure API: Resilient Distributed Datasets.
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Jun 6, 2019 • 8 mins
Spark
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Manage Data Pipelines with Apache Airflow

Use Apache Airflow to create standardized and easily reproducible data pipelines in Python.
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Jun 3, 2019 • 13 mins
Apache
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Series'

Data Analysis with Pandas 11
Build Flask Apps 11
Google Cloud Architecture 6
Learning Apache Spark 6
Welcome to SQL 4
GraphQL Tutorials 4
Working with MySQL 4
Mastering SQLAlchemy 4
Mapping Data with Mapbox 3
Python Concurrency with Asyncio 2
Getting Started with Django 2
Web Scraping With Python 2
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  • Build Flask Apps
  • Google Cloud Architecture
  • Learning Apache Spark
  • Welcome to SQL
  • GraphQL Tutorials
  • Working with MySQL
  • Mastering SQLAlchemy
  • Mapping Data with Mapbox
  • Python Concurrency with Asyncio
  • Getting Started with Django
  • Web Scraping With Python
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