Categoria: Python
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Making GCP Cloud Function Calls Faster
Recently my wife and I have been watching reruns of some TV programs containing Jeremy Clarkson (Top Gear, The Grand Tour, Clarkson’s Farm). Despite the buffoonery he is quite a clever chap, although will…
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Twitter Thread tl;dr With AI? Part 2
In part 1 we saw how to scrape Twitter, turn tweets in JSON documents, get an embedding representation of that tweet, store everything in Couchbase and how to run a vector search. These are…
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Twitter Thread tl;dr With AI? Part 1
Because who has the time ? (also part 1 because it took me further than I expected 😬) Couchbase recently introduced support for Vector Search. And I have been looking for an excuse to…
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The Top 8 Best Languages for Backend Development
Computer programming is becoming an increasingly necessary and popular skill. Many high school and college graduates are exposed to programming even if they are not in a computer science field. This rise in exposure…
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Validate JSON Documents in Python using Pydantic
One of the main attractions of document databases is the flexibility of the document structure or schema. For the most part, the flexibility in the document schema is beneficial. However, there might be some…
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How to Build Observability Dashboards with Prometheus, Grafana & Couchbase
You’ve certainly heard it before: “What gets measured gets done.” It’s true: what you observe and measure is what you can improve. The key to any improvement is to first identify what to measure…
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How to Update Python 2 to Python 3 & The Differences Between Them
Introduction The last major Python upgrade — to version 3 — arrived in Dec. 2008, nearly 12 years ago. And yet there is a good chance that you are still working on the Python…
