I’ve been playing with OpenTelemetry in my spare time because of a general interest for my current role heading up Telemetry at Netflix as it appears to be gaining traction in the industry as… (more…)

Prerequisites: Have Python/Anaconda and Selenium installed. See the previous intro to Selenium if you’re not familiar with it. The full code for this post is included at the end. You might fi…

How can you test an empty database? Well, you can't, really. Read on and let Aiven's Developer Advocate Francesco Tisiot walk you through creating pretend streaming data using Python and Faker. (more…)

I discuss Lamport's Byzantine Generals problem and why it requires a total of N≥3M+1 nodes with M malicious nodes, and then implement the solution using Python with HTTP Flask servers. (more…)

Explanation of panda's grouper and aggregation (agg) functions... (more…)