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Hello folks. My name is Carlos Cabán and I’m a Data Engineer at Reddit as of October of 2023. I got into Data Engineering without a software degree. I thought I’d go over how I went from being an analyst out of college to doing larger scale data work with companies like Reddit and Netflix … Read more
Users have expectations when they’re using your tools. Maybe you have a message app? Your enter button should probably send your message. Tab might make you switch windows or menus. We’ll cover how to run a function when your user hits the enter button in a NextJS application. This will also work for any generic … Read more
Let’s quickly go over how to set default inputs on a NextJS Typescript function. This will be short and to the point. No need to waste your time. The Why I Need to Set a Default So, I wanted to dynamically set the autofocus of a custom input in my tool. But when I added … Read more
In what situation would you want to use BigQuery’s having clause outside of an interview? We’ll go over a couple of use cases and how I use it as a Data Engineer for Reddit. My Setup What Is BigQuery? BigQuery is a data warehouse as a service. Google handles your compute, your storage, and does … Read more
Let’s go over some terminal commands for Beginners. This assumes you have basic computer knowledge and might have some sort of interest in software development. Terminal commands, especially those for linux systems, will get you pretty far. My Setup MacOS Opening Your Terminal On a mac hit command+space. This will open a search window. My … Read more
We’re going to walk you through how to create a custom button in Next.js. This article will help you abstract the button so that you’re not copy pasting the core code everywhere throughout your application. This helps with application organization which might not be a huge problem when your application is tiny. But it’ll be … Read more
Let’s cast an array of items using lambdas in Python. It’ll look cleaner than its forloop counterpart. They’re a great way to clean up super verbose code and helpful when doing array manipulation. Before we begin, if you don’t know what a Python lambda is please check out this article we recently wrote. My most … Read more
One of the first things we do when starting off a new application is get our background squared away. This article will cover how to add a background image to a NextJS app. My Setup Setting Up Our Basic NextJS App Webstorm Sooo, I use Webstorm. So rather than going the CLI route, I tend … Read more
Why Might I need A Partition Expiration? Partition expirations can be leveraged for several use cases. Some countries have laws pertaining to how long PII can be held. Storage is very expensive, maybe your company wants to save some money? The list can and will go on. But it gets a little harder when the … Read more
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 Getting Airflow Standing Docker Airflow Looking for more detailed info? Check out Airflow’s official docs. Happy … Read more
