As we approach 2020’s advent of new Internet of Things technologies, smart homes and home automation have become increasingly common rather than inaccessibly luxurious. Numerous IoT products have risen like Google Clips, Amazon Alexa and INSTEON. This is to provide easy-to-install smart home technologies to even the least technologically-savvy consumers. However, with so many products…
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TUTORIAL’S SPECIAL: Introduction to Python by Ing Wei Tang
Great news! Python 101 tutorial will be made out public and the link will be shared soon! One of the reasons that perhaps deters people going for PyCon or Python related conferences is people have zero knowledge of python or little knowledge of python programming language. Hence, in order to encourage attendees attending the conference…
TUTORIAL SERIES: Celery is Digestive! by Abhishek Mishra
In this tutorial Abhishek Mishra will explain to you on the following topics:– What is task queue– What is celery– The celery task execution process– The different framework support for celery– Choosing broker for it (Redis or RabbitMQ or Aliens) – approach for using celery in application – The hands-on demo with all steps and…
TUTORIAL SERIES: Polyglot Data with Python: Introducing Pandas and Apache Arrow by Robson Junior
Nowadays Python is synonymous of data, but not necessarily the best choice for some data tasks. For example, exchange data between different ecosystems is one of the challenges for Python. Pandas and NumPy are very efficient and de facto tools to deal with a reasonable amount of data with performance, but they are limited outside…
Faster Python apps with open source APM by Aravind Putrevu
Slow applications are no fun. Application performance monitoring (APM) makes tracking down issues much easier. But which tools should you use? With the release of Elastic APM, there’s a new option. The language server and clients are fully open source (Apache 2.0) so you can get started with any app. Elastic’s APM was released some…
Demystifying Web Map Servers: the invisible side of Geographic Information Systems by Shivashis Padhi
The oldest map dates back to 600 BC, and was carved on a tabloid. Since then, we have come a long way to view maps on digital screens and browse through terabytes of data seamlessly. Have you wondered how do web-based map services like Google Maps, OpenStreetMaps function? How do they display the right image…