How quickly we can uncover interesting insights by executing analytics queries with the DuckDB embedded SQL engine, just using Node.js? — Project Setup Set up a new Node.js package: $ mkdir nyc-taxi-correlations && cd nyc-taxi-correlations $ yarn init -y Add basic dependencies: $ yarn add -D typescript ts-node nodemon Add DuckDB, the star of the show, using DeepCrawl’s node-duckdb: $ yarn add node-duckdb ✨ Done in 11.66s.

Cloud object storage services (AWS S3, GCS, more recently Azure Blobs) were among the first cloud products to make us stop having to think about the servers that the cloud runs on. Critical enablers for the serverless paradigm, they are often taken for granted and, it can be argued that…

In Part 2, we continued to build out the Cloud Pizza Place — a virtual restaurant in the cloud, to see some more of the patterns and nuances of serverless computing. Cloud managed services should enable scalability that is cost-effective and without operational burden. We want to satisfy high customer…

In Part 1, we started building out the Cloud Pizza Place — a virtual restaurant in the cloud, to see some of the patterns and nuances of serverless computing. Using cloud managed services should increase our ability to build our software as smaller, more isolated parts, allowing for greater team…

Serverless computing is the latest trend in cloud software development, with over 88% of UK organizations adopting cloud technologies to accelerate innovation and reduce operational costs. With serverless computing, cloud providers dynamically manage the allocation and operation of machine resources, allowing for a more granular deployment model for application code…

This series of articles, will take us through a prototyping process: designing, architecting and coding; including wireframes, deployment templates, source code (Python and JavaScript), and references to tools/documentation we used. Our focus is not on optimising user experience, but rather on how efficiently we can build something end-to-end. …

This series of articles, will take us through a prototyping process: designing, architecting and coding; including wireframes, deployment templates, source code (Python and JavaScript), and references to tools/documentation we used. Our focus is not on optimising user experience, but rather on how efficiently we can build something end-to-end. …

We can’t get enough of get-something-from-somewhere-now apps: Deliveroo, Uber Eats, Grindr, Tinder, and many others. Taxi apps, too, are huge, and it’s become quite a serious business. Uber has been working on self-driving cars for some time, and Daimler (Mercedes-Benz), pioneer of autonomous driving technology, actually owns mytaxi, the European…

I’ll never forget the first time I switched on my father’s home computer. I was alone and I imagined what I was doing was very wrong. I remember the slight resistance of the red flip switch so clearly. The screen came on with whizz and a fade-in, and I waited…