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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.
Drawing Mapbox Route Objects via the Directions API

Drawing Mapbox Route Objects via the Directions API

Using the Mapbox Directions API to visually draw routes.
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Feb 28, 2019 • 5 mins
Mapbox
Clusters of SQL Servers Shooting Lasers Like Godzilla

Welcome to SQL 3: Building Relations and Combining Data Sets

This week we look at the fun side of SQL where we JOIN tables and create UNIONs.
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Feb 25, 2019 • 10 mins
SQL
Welcome to SQL 2: Selecting, Updating, and Deleting Data

Welcome to SQL 2: Selecting, Updating, and Deleting Data

Explore the many flavors of SQL data manipulation in part 2 of our series.
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Feb 21, 2019 • 7 mins
SQL
Making API Requests with node-fetch

Making API Requests with node-fetch

Use Node's lightweight node-fetch library to make HTTP to REST API endpoints, or any URL.
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Feb 20, 2019 • 4 mins
NodeJS
SQL Database

Welcome to SQL: Modifying Databases and Tables

Brush up on SQL fundamentals such as creating tables, schemas, and views.
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Feb 19, 2019 • 11 mins
SQL
S3 File Management With The Boto3 Python SDK

S3 File Management With The Boto3 Python SDK

Modify and manipulate thousands of files in your S3 (or DigitalOcean) Bucket.
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Feb 18, 2019 • 8 mins
Python
Connect Flask to a Database with Flask-SQLAlchemy

Connect Flask to a Database with Flask-SQLAlchemy

Interact with a database within Flask using Flask-SQLAlchemy. Create, fetch, and manage records via SQLAlchemy’s ORM.
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Feb 6, 2019 • 9 mins
Flask
Easily Build GraphQL APIs with Prisma

Easily Build GraphQL APIs with Prisma

Jump on the GraphQL Bandwagon with a little help from Prisma.
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Feb 3, 2019 • 7 mins
GraphQL
SQLAlchemy SQL Queries as Python Code

Queries as Python Code with SQLAlchemy's Expression Language

Work with your app's data entirely in Python by defining data models and using the session object from SQLAlchemy's ORM.
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Feb 1, 2019 • 9 mins
SQLAlchemy
Implement ORM Data Models with SQLAlchemy

Implement ORM Data Models with SQLAlchemy

Handle your application's data layer with SQLAlchemy's powerful ORM. Define data models, add/remove records, and execute queries purely in Python.
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Jan 24, 2019 • 6 mins
SQLAlchemy
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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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  • Data Analysis with Pandas
  • 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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