How To Read A CSV File In Python

What Is A CSV FileI first began to work with CSV files when taking the backend portion of my software engineering bootcamp curriculum. It wasn’t un...

Using MongoDB with Docker

Docker is a powerful development platform that enables users to containerize software. These containers can be run on any machine, as well as in a ...

LXC vs Docker: Which Container Platform Is Right for You?

Linux Containers (LXC) is an OS-level virtualization technology that enables you to create and run multiple Linux operating systems (OS) simultaneo...

Golang gRPC Example

Welcome back. I’m an experienced developer, learning Golang by building an activity tracker. Last time I added SQLite persistence. Today, I’m going...

Introduction to GitLab’s CI/CD for Continuous Deployments

Among the many benefits of GitLab are how it facilitates CI/CD practices, that is continuous integration and continuous deployment. In CI, frequent...

Golang SQLite database/sql

Welcome back. I’m an experienced developer, learning Golang by building an activity tracker. Last time I made a command-line client to connect to t...

Stop Using Pie-Charts

What’s Wrong With Pie ChartsHumans have a hard time comparing areas. Try it for yourself: Which slice is the largest? Which is the smallest?Can you...

Command Line JSON Client In Golang

I’m an experienced software developer learning Golang by building an activity tracker1. I want a low-effort way to track my physical activity, and ...

Property-Based Testing In Go

Have you ever wanted your unit tests written for you? Property based testing is a powerful testing technique that, in a sense, is just that. You de...

Using AWK with CSV Files

When the AWK tutorial came out, one of the questions on hacker news was how you use AWK with CSV (comma-separated value) files.The thing that preve...

Jenkins Deployment Stages and Pipelines

The software release cycle has developed over time, from the days of moving code from one machine to another to see if it works (which was frequent...

Understanding Bash Variables

Bash is not just a UNIX shell, it’s also a programming language. And like most programming languages, it has variables. You use these shell variabl...

Bash String Manipulation

One thing that bash is excellent at is manipulating strings of text. If you’re at the command line or writing a small script, then knowing some bas...

An Introduction to JQ

In this article, I’m going to go over the basics building blocks of jq in enough depth that you will be able to understand how jq works.