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We’ll walk you through how to run Apache Airflow locally in Docker. The first chunk of this post will cover how to get Airflow standing, the second will go into some nuance and will answer several whys. My Setup MacOS Ventura M1 Chip Getting Airflow Standing Docker 1. Download Docker Desktop from this link. Make …
I’ve had numerous cases where I’ve needed to execute bash commands and return the results in Python for some additional manipulation. My most recent example involved me working with BigQuery schemas. Getting schemas from the CLI was easy peasy but I’m not the best at BASH programming so I naturally turned to something more familiar …
So you’re trying to upload a Pandas DataFrame to DynamoDB using Python? Let’s take a step back first. Why are we using DynamoDB? What is DynamoDB? What is DyanmoDB DyanmoDB is a non-relational fully managed database product offered by Amazon’s cloud computing arm AWS. So why would you go the DynamoDB route vs MySQL, Postgres, …
Need help finding the first instance of an element in an array? I recently came across a situation where I had two arrays with corresponding data in each array. For example, I had two arrays where one was a person’s first name and the other was a person’s last name. I needed to find a …
Happen to have a ton of giant marketing materials that you need to get down to size for your website? Are you about to release an app and need to resize images down to Google/Apple’s prescribed dimensions? I mean you could always open the images individually in GIMP (my preferred image editor), go into tools, …
Prep First let’s make sure you have the OpenPyXL library installed. If you’re already in Python and don’t want to needlessly exit the interpreter, then type the following: This command should list out all the methods of OpenPyXL if it is in fact installed on your machine. Else, we’ll have to turn to pip. Assuming …
Trying to make a a Pandas DataFrame but getting the, “If using all scalar values, you must pass an index” error?