Charles Landau articles - 25 total
GitOps Superpowers
I've been using GitOps for the past few years and I wanted to reflect briefly on what I've learned, h...
Things I Wish I Knew as a New Python User
This post originally appeared on the The Slip Box Last week I responded to the weekly #DevDiscuss wi...
The Wrong Question About Docker and Kubernetes
Not too long ago I discovered the work of a very smart and snarky cloud economist by the name of Core...
Greedy Learning and Rapid Adoption
A long time ago I gave up on knowing anything about coding, tech, or development. Knowing things take...
Data Engineering vs Data Science
I was in a local technology Slack and saw the question: Tell me, what is data engineering and how i...
What do you think about the "Shape Up" project management framework?
And if you haven't checked it out, here it is.
How does open source impact your local community?
For the past few months I've been participating with Code for DC, a Code for America brigade. As part...
Python 3.8 Has Been Released 🚀🚀 Let's Take a Tour
Cover Image by Onur Ömer Yavuz from Pixabay !python --version Python 3.8.0rc1 Launch Page Pyth...
Data Munging with Common Pandas Operations
Why? Why am I writing the billionth article on Pandas data munging? Aren't the other artic...
React useContext and Pre-Initialized Providers
On a recent project I started using the React Context API instead of Redux, and I like it. Here's how...
🤖➯🌩 (Machine Learning In the Cloud)
I've been preparing a talk for my local ML user group and as a result I've had to synthesize a lot of...
🤖➡🌜 (Teach Bots to Land on the Moon)
Tinker with this notebook in Google Colab GitHub In the past few episodes we've gone over design pr...
Civic Hacking and YOU
Here in the United States our National Day of Civic Hacking on September 21st is fast approaching, so...
Distilling Steven Wittens’ Minimum Viable Bureaucracy (MVB)
Steven’s whole article (and a lot of his blog) is worth a read. Check it out here. Wittens presents a...
What do you want to learn?
What technology (or whatever) looks shiny and fun? Why haven't you learned it yet? What do you alread...
The Funnel: How I Pick Small Side Projects
In this post I'm going to explain my thought process for taking on a small side project. I should say...
Visualizing the Primary Debates
The past couple days in the US, the Democrats have been debating about who should get to run against...
Primary Debate Analysis Quickstart
EDIT: After both nights of the debate concluded I did a more thorough write up. I'd encourage you to...
Drive a Tank With Python
Previously, I reviewed core concepts in Reinforcement Learning (RL) and introduced important parts of...
Train Robots to Shoot Lazers at Aliens With Software Funded By Elon Musk and Microsoft
In this introduction I'm going to skip ahead to the robots shooting lazers because life is too short....
Don't Let Gamification Bring You Down
Photo by Kay on Unsplash I was recently having a conversation that comes under the general header of...
Provision Spark Clusters and Run Jobs Right in Your Notebook
We'll be using GCP SDKs to provision Spark clusters and run PySpark jobs on them -- all from a notebo...
What little things are you doing to make your online life easier?
I finally marked all my old emails as read.
Natural Language Processing... in the Browser???
Using compromise.js to do natural language processing in a React app.
Design Principles for World Class Reinforcement Learning on AWS DeepRacer
How we finished in the top 10 at AWS Summit NYC's reinforcement learning race.