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When Airbnb was scaling rapidly, they faced the problem of organizing complex data pipelines. To combat this and become a data-driven organization, Airbnb launched Apache Airflow in 2015, their custom-made open-source platform to manage complex workflows. In simple words, Apache Airflow is a platform where you can create, schedule, and monitor complex workflows using simple … Read more
Let’s work on manipulating a dataframe. Let’s work on editing all elements of a DataFrame according to a condition. You have a horde of data you just imported from a CSV or an Excel doc. You’ve managed to get the data into a Pandas DataFrame using one of the built in import methods like read_csv … Read more
Happen to be trying to remove your computer’s name from your bash/terminal on Ubuntu? I thought it was an eyesore when I was writing up some docs and was taking screenshots. I did some research and thought I’d pass along what I learned. My Setup Windows 10 Ubuntu Subsystem Edit your hidden .bashrc file! So … Read more
What git branch am I in? It’s an age old question I’ll ask myself maybe once an hour. I’ll make a big change, decide that I need to save the repo before I break something, I make a commit (often times with commitizen), and then git push origin … . But where was I pushing … Read more
Trying to make an image clickable in React Native? It was one of the harder things for me to do when I started off so I thought I’d do a quick write up on spinning up touchable components. My Setup Starting a New React Native Project Click React Native under new project in Webstorm. This … Read more
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, … Read more
Are you getting the Permission Denied (Publickey) error? I imagine you’re starting to setup a Digital Ocean droplet or Ubuntu on another cloud provider and need to ssh into your server? After trying are you getting the permission denied (Publickey) error? I was setting up Jenkins and wanted to quickly access the droplet from my … Read more
So, I’m new to AWS. Today I setup a new EC2 instance to deploy a personal instance of sentry.io. It’s a pretty universal and open source code error reporting tool which I plan to use to report on internal infrastructure and customer facing applications. During that setup process I needed to SSH into my new … Read more
Happen to be getting the Invariant Violation: requireNativeComponent: “RNGADBannerView” was not found in the UIManager error? Did you use the really useful react-native-admob lib at some point, remove it, but are still getting this weird error? Maybe you’re using another lib, removed it, and are getting a similar error? I spent nearly three full days … Read more
I recently spent quite some time trying to vertically and horizontally center text in React Native. I tried all sorts of combinations of align, alignContent, alignSelf, etc but couldn’t get my text horizontally and vertically centered. I mean this is probably because I’m React Native newb but stilllll. I’m actually quite surprised how bare the … Read more