Using the Repository Pattern in your Python Code

And why it's a great tool to use when swapping out data sources

Git Merge vs Git Rebase - What's the difference?

Here's when to use one over the other

Reduce the number of if/else statements in your Python code

Add "registry pattern" to your tool belt.

Validate your Pandas DataFrames with Pandera

Continue to use vectorization with this package

Using Python's graphlib.TopologicalSort method

And why it's SO much better than writing Kahn's algorithm by hand

Python's functions: the one bug that isn't easy to track down

And what you can do to avoid it

MarkItDown: Convert almost any document into Markdown with Python

A new library from Microsoft that converts almost any document into clean Markdown, in one line

Stop logging strings, start logging data with Python's structlog

Why your Python logs should be structured and how structlog makes it easy

Using Anthropic's Models in your Python program

Here's the basics on using their API to get Sonnet, Haiku, Opus, and Fable working seamlessly.

Understanding the purpose of *args and **kwargs in Python

Here's how you can use it to pass in "unlimited" parameters.

Python's partial functions with the functools library

Type Checking in Python

Tools you can use

Understanding Recursion in Python

Understanding Recursion in Python

Using SQLite with your Python program

Here's how you can use it

Understanding Python's f-strings

Reading and Writing files in Python

See how you can read and write text, CSV, JSON, and more using Python, Pandas, and other libraries.

Understanding Message Queues with Python

See what messages and message queues are with stub Python driver code for AWS SQS

Python's collections library

The 2 classes I use all the time as a data engineer

Boost your Testing Coverage with pytest-cov

See what code got executed without tracking it yourself.

Using Python's tomllib module

Parse your toml files quickly and easily with this simple 2 method module.

Bash vs Python - which one is a better scripting language?

Every File in a Python Project Repository, Explained (that's not your Python code)

Plus an open source project to support modern AI tooling workflows.

Using Python's Pydantic library to validate your data

Integrate this package into your data analysis workflow to keep things consistent throughout the system.

Everything is an object in Python

And here is why it's super important to understand this

Control Flow Logic in Python

These are the built-in mechanisms Python gives you to control execution of your code.