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Terraform: Creating configurable server
In my previous post around spinning up an EC2 instance using Terraform, I concluded my notes with how the main.tf (the main code for the project that created the EC2 instance) repeated the port 8080 in two different sections of the code: both in user_data and when creating a security group. It’s better to not…
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Visualizing SQL data
I worked with data analysis using Panda, matplotlib and more during my studies at UW, but subsequently focused on cloud infrastructure and securing resources. Building out my database and SQL skills, I’m coming full circle to using visualization to better understand data- this is helpful in all sorts of ways! Here are some links to…
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BabySteps Back-End Dev’t
In previous posts, I built out python code for an application wherein a user could sign up, log in with authentication, and track his/her activities leading to their specific goals. Previously, I had used key-value pairs within a dictionary and lists to store my input values, and once the application session closed, that data was…
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Back-End Dev’t With Flask
LIke other posts I’ve made recently, this one will detail my efforts to learn the Flask framework hand-in-hand with what I’ve been learning recently: Python, SQL, databases, and more. There’s a lot of information, both conceptual and technical, and it’s really helpful to have these kinds of notes to be able to reference down the…
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Containers w/ Alembic, Postgres DB, VSC + RAW vs ORM SQL Queries
This posting is where I’m going to post the steps that I took to do the following: 1) set up Visual Studio Code to work with Containers 2) download docker images 3) connect to various containers which all are geared up to build a python-flask-PG DB application 4) work with alembic and flask to work…
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Shell Scripting
There’s a lot of tools and things to learn when it comes to networks, cloud, IaC, and so forth. There are a few that I understand to be fundamental: python, networking, Linux, and…scripting. So, even though I am loving learning about all things cloud and networking, I am going to shift to deep dive into…
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Building out a Postgres SQL Database for Goal-Tracking App
In a previous post, I detailed the steps I took to create an application, crafted lovingly with Python, which allowed a user to log in, authenticated that user, and allowed a user to set goals and to track their activities leading to achieve those goals. One of the challenges that I ran into with building…