Last week, I wrote about my experience using gRPC to process an API call that would make a SQL update. Since we were focusing on the gRPC part, we didn’t closely examine how we were using Java to make the update. …

I had my first experience with gRPC over a year ago, as I discussed in this post from August 2021. I’m sorry to say that I haven’t been working consistently with it since then, so I’ve had to re-learn a lot of the concepts. Further complicating things, our most common…

The last time I posted, I shared my experience debugging type adjustment with a pandas DataFrame. Around the same time I was writing that article, a friend of mine asked if I could do a presentation for one of our company’s Demo Days. I wanted to help him out and…

Python is my life now. Let that be a lesson to all the boot camp grads (like me) out there: I had never written a single line of Python code when I started my current job. Since then, I’ve taken one Udemy Python course and mostly learned through random docs…

I spent a couple of days struggling with encryption this week, so the weekend seemed like a perfect time to brush up as I hope to close the door on my issue Monday. Then, a funny thing happened. …

I’m getting better at my job. This week, I got a request to update the data formatting on a report that we generate to match the format of data elsewhere. I knew exactly where to find the SQL that generated the data and it didn’t take much time to update…

In my experience, a lot of computer programming is about abstraction. When I first started learning, I coded in a repo that already had a testing infrastructure in place so that I could check my work. I didn’t have to write the tests or even understand how they worked, nor…

Loyal readers might be familiar with a certain Python script in my workplace. If not, here’s what you need to know: it’s super long and hard to edit because it has so many things going on. Thanks to some additional resources and oversight now being provided to my team, we’re…

A good friend of mine recently graduated from coding boot camp and is now dealing with everyone’s favorite part about being an engineer: interviewing. She’s asked me for help with a couple of algorithm problems and I think I’ve been more of an impediment than anything, so it seems as…