If you read my summary of PyCon Israel day 2 you would know that my favorite lecture over the two days was one that used OR-Tools to solve some scheduling issues the presenter was facing at her company. Aside from it being a great lecture, lightbulbs immediately went off in my head. Could this package […]
Week of July 10, 2022 A (hopefully) weekly column where I keep you updated on some of the topics I learned about during the week. SQL Optimization Last week, a query that I wrote was given and then modified on my own went into production. Then everything started going haywire. CPU usage went up to […]
I just wanted to take a moment or two to wrap up my recent discussion on the importance and value of proof-of-concept testing. I mentioned in parts 1 and 2 that proof-of-concept testing comes in two forms. First, a race to MVP, or minimally viable product. Second, pushing already existing technology to its limits to […]
In my previous post about this topic, I discussed how I could quickly build out an app that will bring your idea to life. I’ll discuss another approach in this post about “Proof-of-Concept” testing. “Can what I have also do this?” Often times a client of mine might have some bits and pieces of an […]
As you can see from my blog, last week I attended the PyCon Israel 2022 conference (Day 1 summary, Day 2 summary). As one would expect for a Python conference in 2022, the hot topic was Machine Learning. Along with Machine Learning comes something called “Big Data”, which is still an ambiguous term, but basically […]
If you take a look at my homepage, you’ll see that one of the things I like to focus on in my work is “Proof-of-Concept” testing. I know this is a vague term, which is why I’m writing a blog post about it! The way I see it proof-of-concept testing can take two forms: Designing […]
Here is what I learned and need to research more after attending half of day 2 at PyCon Israel 2022. Keynote: Yam Peleg This morning I caught the early bus to Ramat Gan and was there not only in time for the keynote but also for some light breakfast. Yam Peleg’s claim to fame is […]
Months ago, I was among the first people to buy tickets to the first post-Corona Python conference here in Israel. I use Python extensively in my data science work as well as in some of my other projects so I thought this would be a great place to learn more about one of the tools […]
As a product of the 90s/early 2000s, getting educated in computers was rough. While we had at least one computer per classroom in elementary school (I went to a private school) we only had one semester of computer programming in high school, and it was in BASIC, already an outdated language (though if you know […]
As you may know, I am the lead developer on a group of sites run by JewishLanguages.org. The site, not of my own choosing, runs on CakePHP 4. A few years ago we had the choice to switch since it was on an old version of CakePHP, but I figured that since I was already […]