Backpressure for dummies
A toy example showing how lacking backpressure may lead to failures and how to add it.
Links 2021-03
Interesting readings of the month
In this post Jessica Livingston, Y Combinator co-founder and partner, goes over her experience in creating Y combinator and how she contributed to its success. Being Y Combinator main goal making start-ups successful in the article she focuses on what skills allowed her to contribute as a founder and how she thinks these are the skills any founder should keep in mind.
Nice high-level overview on the tools available to enhance Jupyter Notebooks and make them more software development friendly. Few interesting tools/extensions are mentioned. Such as nbstripou, a tool that will allow you to only see through git diff only the changes done in the commands within a notebook, rather than the unreadable blob that you will see by default. Or nbdev, Papermill, which should allow you to parameterize a notebook and effectively turn it into something that could be used as a layer in a pipeline.
Time taken to write post: 20 minutes
2023
Patching python objects through pytest fixtures
A simple piece on how to patch objects and use pytest fixtures in tests at the same time
2022
A convoluted, but effective, python environments management setup for Emacs
Using various tools to make python environments working automagically also with emacs
Documenting is scaling yourself, but also a career choice
On the benefits of documenting your work and how it can impact your share of the pie
2021
2021 Review
Looking back at 2021 to look forward at 2022
99 Bottles of OOP highlights
Several ideas worth remembering from Sandi Metz’s book 99 bottles of OOP
A better pattern for pickling machine learning models
Can we do better than a straightforward pickle.dump?
Job interviews: mistakes and learnings
Why interviewing time to time is useful and what I learned so far by doing so
Links 2021-03
Interesting readings of the month
Links 2021-02
Interesting readings of the month
OOP design patterns applied in data science: Strategy
Use case of the Strategy pattern in a data science application
Links 2021-01
Interesting readings of the month
2020
The value of writing
Considerations on how practicing writing can help improving how we communicate and how we think
Few intuitions on eigenvectors, eigenvalues and their use in PCA
an overview of what eigenvectors and eigenvalues are and why they make PCA work
Sending multiple POST requests from a spidered page using Scrapy
A possible pattern for replicating programmatically AJAX POST requests when scraping webpages using Scrapy
Comments
Test