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Serving Assets a 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.

11 min readApr 14, 2022

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Async HTTP Requests with Aiohttp & Aiofiles

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

13 min readJan 18, 2022

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Async HTTP Requests with Aiohttp & Aiofiles

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Intro to Asynchronous Python with Asyncio

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

9 min readJan 10, 2022

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Managing Multiple Versions of Python on Ubuntu 20.04

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

7 min readFeb 25, 2021

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Python on Ubuntu 20.04

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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…

6 min readJan 20, 2021

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Implement ORM Data Models with SQLAlchemy

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Databases in Python Made Easy with SQLAlchemy

Leverage the iconic SQLAlchemy Python library to effortlessly handle database connections and queries in software.

9 min readJan 19, 2021

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Create Cloud-hosted Charts with Plotly Chart Studio

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

7 min readSep 3, 2020

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Create Cloud-hosted Charts with Plotly Chart Studio

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Deploy Serverless Golang Functions with Netlify

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

9 min readAug 1, 2020

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Deploy Serverless Golang Functions with Netlify

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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.

11 min readJul 8, 2020

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Scrape Structured Data with Python and Extruct

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Compiling and Serving Frontend Assets in Flask

Create and compile LESS, SASS, and JS files for your Flask app’s frontend using Flask-Assets.

7 min readJun 29, 2020

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Compiling and Serving Frontend Assets in Flask

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Todd Birchard

Todd Birchard

Software engineer with background in Data & Product Management background. Does everything incorrectly before coming to realizations known as best practices.

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