Dynamic Attributes in Python
One of the strengths of a dynamic language is that it allows you to more easily work introspection and light weight meta-programming into your every day code...
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Introducing Advocoders
Update: this app was decommissioned in 2022
Using HBase/Thrift through the Rackspace Load Balancer
Using the binary Thrift protocol through a load balancer can be a little tricky. While it works out of the box in HAProxy, you may run into some slight troub...
Mocking HappyBase for unit testing HBase code
HappyBase is a friendly interface to interact with HBase from Python. It lets you perform basic HBase operations like get, put and scan. But say you have a b...
Introducing Django Migratron
Django Migratron is a schema migration tool for Django. Why write another schema migration tool? Here is how we stack up against other tools.
Facebook Page Post Insights Empty Results
Spent a couple of hours tearing my hair out over the Facebook insights API this week. Say you have a Facebook page with an ID of 173304932707127, and a post ...
Why Database Integrity Matters
Given the rise in popularity of NoSQL solutions, typically set apart by their explicit forfeiture of traditional RDBMS features, you might think that age old...
Flatten entire HBase column families with Pig and Python UDFs
Most Pig tutorials you will find assume that you are working with data where you know all the column names ahead of time, and that the column names themselve...
HBase/Pig/Python Quickstart on OSX
Having spent a good chunk of the last two weeks getting a prototype analytics system running, I thought I would write up my findings. I was pleased to find t...
Mocking HTTP calls in Python tests
There are at least a few decent libraries out there for mocking out HTTP calls in Python unit tests. The best solution looks like HTTPretty. One feature that...