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book reviews Cloud Server

97 Things every Cloud Engineer should Know – Summarised Notes

As with the other post on 97 things every developer should know, this is not a hard and fast list. It is a bit of interesting info from people in the industry that may or may not have the required experience and may be in a specific part of the business not relevant to you. […]

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book reviews

Ranking of some Star Wars Books

Path of Destruction (Star Wars: Darth Bane, #1) Darth Plagueis (Star Wars Legends) Thrawn (Star Wars: Thrawn, #1) Rule of Two (Star Wars: Darth Bane, #2) Master and Apprentice Dynasty of Evil (Star Wars: Darth Bane, #3) Heir to the Empire (Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy, #1) Shatterpoint (Star Wars: Clone Wars #1) Into the […]

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django

Displaying a network chart graph diagram on a Django site

There is often a case for improving the understanding of things with visualisations. Python provides a number of libraries to create great visualisations – however they often focus on a data science approach – scripts and jupyter notebooks. What we want is the visualisations to be easily accessible through a django website. That is what […]

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bitcoin

Installing and Running a Full Node with Bitcoin Core Daemon on Ubuntu 20.04

In this guide I will be showing the steps I used to get a bitcion full node running. It is based mainly on the bitcoin core full node guide however I also used some info from the Mastering Bitcoin book Prerequisites In order to run a full node your computer needs to meet certain performance […]

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python

Using FuzzyFuzzy to Match similar strings and Making Tweaks to Improve it

I have been scraping betting odds from a few websites in my spare time to decrease the time manually checking the odds on the different sites. I’ve been using Fuzzywuzzy Example I scrape an event name from a specific site: name = Feyenoord Rotterdam – Wolfsberger AC Now I want to match it with an […]