How to communicate effectively as a developer. – writing effectively is the second most important skill after reading effectively and one of the skills that can differentiate you and push you forward. If you read only one thing today, read this –
https://www.karlsutt.com/articles/communicating-effectively-as-a-developer/
26 AWS Security Best Practices to Adopt in Production – this is a periodic reminder to pay attention to our SecOps. This post is very well written and the initial table of AWS security best practices by service is great.
https://sysdig.com/blog/26-aws-security-best-practices/
EVA Video Analytics System – “EVA is a new database system tailored for video analytics — think MySQL for videos.”. Looks cool on first glance and I can think off use cases for myself, yet I wonder if it could become a production-level grade.
https://github.com/georgia-tech-db/eva
I see it as somehow complementary to – https://github.com/impira/docquery
Forestplot – “This package makes publication-ready forest plots easy to make out-of-the-box.”. I like it when academia and technology meet and this is really usable, also for data scientists’ day-to-day work. The next step would probably be deep integration with scikit-learn to pandas.
https://github.com/lsys/forestplot
Bonus – Python DataViz cookbook – easy way to navigate between the different common python visualization practices (i.e via pandas vs using matplotlib / plotly / seaborn). I would like to see it going to the next step – controlling the colors, grid, etc. from the UI and then switching between the frameworks but that’s a starting point.
https://dataviz.dylancastillo.co/
roadmap.sh – it is not always clear how to level up your skills, what you should learn next (best practices, technology – which, etc). Roadmap.sh attempts to create such roadmaps. While I don’t agree with everything there, I think that the format and references are nice and it is a good inspiration.
Shameless plug – Growing A Python Developer (2021), I plan to write a small update in the near future.
Tom Ron 