Programming
Flask is a popular 'micro-framework' for building web APIs in Python. However, getting a Flask API 'into production' can be a little tricky for newcomers. This post provides a minimal template project for a Flask API, and gives some tips on how to build out basic production Flask APIs.
Engineering Skills for Data Scientists
Data models and data formats are an easily overlooked but critical aspect of modern data infrastructure and development work. This post gives an introduction to HDF5 and how to get started using it in Go.
Computer Science Fundamentals
In Part 1 of this mini-series, you saw how OOP concepts can be used to structure and manipulate code. In this part, you'll see how these ideas are formally defined, and look at a couple of more advanced concepts too.
Technology
Streamlit is a minimal, modern data visualization framework that's rapidly becoming the go-to dataapp framework in the Python ecosystem. This post introduces Streamlit, and shows you how to securely and scalably deploy your Streamlit apps with Google App Engine.