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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.
Geographic Data Visualization with Mapbox

Geographic Data Visualization with Mapbox

Visualize beautiful and customizable map data with free Mapbox APIs and SDKs.
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Dec 11, 2018 • 11 mins
Mapbox
Integrate Plotly Dash Into Your Flask App

Integrate Plotly Dash Into Your Flask App

Use a clever workaround to embed interactive Plotly Dash interfaces into your Flask applications.
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Dec 10, 2018 • 10 mins
Plotly
Configuring Python Projects with INI, TOML, YAML, and ENV files

Configuring Python Projects with INI, TOML, YAML, and ENV files

Explore Python project configs by diving into INI, TOML, YAML, and ENV file formats. Find the configuration format which suits your project and preference.
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Nov 29, 2018 • 9 mins
Python
MongoDB Stitch Serverless Functions

MongoDB Stitch Serverless Functions

A crash course in MongoDB Stitch serverless functions: the bread and butter of MongoDB Cloud.
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Nov 26, 2018 • 6 mins
NoSQL
Query MongoDB via Frontend with Stitch

Query MongoDB via Frontend with Stitch

MongoDB Stitch vs the impossible: secure database queries via frontend JS.
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Nov 23, 2018 • 7 mins
NoSQL
Image Compression Using Gulp and Imagemin

Image Compression Using Gulp and Imagemin

Optimize page load time by compressing large images in via Gulp's Imagemin plugin.
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Nov 21, 2018 • 4 mins
JavaScript
MongoDB Cloud: Backend as a Service with Atlas & Stitch

MongoDB Cloud: Backend as a Service with Atlas & Stitch

MongoDB's silent transformation from an open-source database to enterprise cloud provider.
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Nov 15, 2018 • 10 mins
NoSQL
Python-powered Robot scraping the web for data.

Scrape the Web with Python & BeautifulSoup

Use Python's BeautifulSoup library to assist in the honest act of systematically stealing data without permission.
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Nov 11, 2018 • 12 mins
Python
Using the Python-Lambda Package to Upload Python Source Code to AWS Lambdas

Python-Lambda: The Essential Library for AWS Cloud Functions

Deploy AWS Lambda functions with ease by using a powerful Python library.
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Nov 7, 2018 • 5 mins
AWS
Create a REST API Endpoint Using AWS Lambda

Create a REST API Endpoint Using AWS Lambda

Create an AWS Lambda function to pull records from a database.
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Oct 29, 2018 • 4 mins
AWS
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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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  • Welcome to SQL
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  • Mastering SQLAlchemy
  • Mapping Data with Mapbox
  • Python Concurrency with Asyncio
  • Getting Started with Django
  • Web Scraping With Python
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