Dome Quarterbacks?
Ah, the “Dome Quarterback.” It’s a popular narrative with football pundits and analysts, especially in the fantasy football community. The idea behind this n...
Leo Rubiano
Reader, programmer, traveler. Experienced back-end dev proficient with Python, Go, Elixir, Ecto, and Postgres.
DE Camp Project 1 Recap
The first portion of Data Engineering Camp is complete, including a submitted and graded first project. The goal of the project was to demonstrate an underst...
DE Camp Week 2 Recap
Week 2 at DE Camp was all about SQL. We started the week by wrapping up our discussion of config-driven pipelines and logging, and how to modularize our code...
DE Camp Week 1 Recap
A few months back, I decided to dive a little more seriously into the world of data engineering, and enrolled in a data engineering camp to get some guided, ...
Appreciating Docker Again
Already in my time in the Data Engineering Zoomcamp, something super useful has popped up: Docker. I’ve worked with Docker on a regular basis for several ye...
Beginning the Data Engineering Zoomcamp
The Data Engineering Zoomcamp kicked off today, and I’m excited to get started! I’ll be creating short posts throughout my learning journey noting some thoug...
Adding Tests to the GiphyScraper
(Read part 1 and part 2 of this blog series) The lack of testing nagged at me throughout the buildout of the GiphyScraper. I’m a fan of test-driven developm...
Adding a CLI Layer to GiphyScraper
(Read part 1 of this blog series here) I hadn’t worked with any kind of command-line library in Elixir before; I’d done a little bit of it with Python, and ...
Creating a Giphy Scraper
My first assignment in the the LearnElixir curriculum is to create a giphy scraper with the following requirements: use Giphy’s search endpoint to return ...
Starting My Elixir Journey
I recently enrolled in LearnElixir’s self-paced program for learning Elixir. I first heard about the language in late 2017, but was still getting back into s...
Data Modeling in Clojure
I’ve recently started a deep dive into the world of Clojure. I’ve had a long fascination with functional programming, and its many promises, but had steered ...
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