This is part of a series on combining PostgreSQL Materialized Views, Recursive CTEs, and SQLAlchemy: Using SQLAlchemy to create and manage PostgreSQL Materialized Views Traversing a tree stored as an adjacency list using a Recursive CTE built in SQLAlchemy (this post) The problem: Recently, while working on the RockClimbing.com codebase, I encountered several situations where data needed to […]
This is part of a series on combining PostgreSQL Materialized Views, Recursive CTEs, and SQLAlchemy: Using SQLAlchemy to create and manage PostgreSQL materialized views (this post) Traversing a tree stored as an adjacency list using a Recursive CTE built in SQLAlchemy Working example code on GitHub Overview of materialized views in SQL: If you’re not familiar with SQL […]
Ansible is a great tool with a lot of flexibility. It’s generally the easiest configuration management tool for new users to start with due to the batteries-included philosophy, straightforward DSL, and daemonless push model. However, as your infrastructure goals become more complex, the flexibility means it’s less obvious how things should be structured. For example, […]
It’s been a few years since I switched from Bash to ZSH on my personal laptop, and I’ve never regretted it. Out of the box, ZSH isn’t that great, but after customizing it using Prezto it’s an amazing timesaver in a lot of little ways. Oh-My-ZSH is the most well-known ZSH customization framework, but it’s gotten pretty […]
Someone on the Flask mailing list asked how to serve multiple Flask apps via uWSGI + Nginx. Anytime you’re working with uWSGI there are multiple ways to do things, but here’s how I do things for RockClimbing.com. I spent several days reading the uWSGI docs + various blog posts around the net, so this should be […]
Back when I first started managing my own servers, I had no idea how to tune MySQL. I would read various forum posts where people talked about the necessity of ‘proper tuning’, but when I looked at the official docs, I struggled to differentiate between what really needed tuning versus what were arcane options that only […]
I’d done a fair number of interviews lately, mostly about Facebook Analytics and EdgeRank. So it was a refreshing change when Dale from TrekDek asked for an interview about the emotional side of being an entrepreneur and the values that drive me day-to-day. Dale’s website is now offline, so I copied his post from archive.org: I […]
Here’s the rather random backstory about how I found myself in Croatia preparing to speak on “business networking.” Eighteen months ago, Ryan Stephens graciously asked me to do a guest post on his blog about my approach to networking. I don’t pretend that I’m an amazing networker who can solve all your problems. Generally I’m […]
I used to rely heavily on a virtual assistant, and got a lot of questions about the process. This blog post tries to answer them. These days I spend most of my time writing code and very little time managing emails/meetings, so when my last VA graduated college and moved onto a real job, I didn’t […]
Hey all–I officially graduated college in the middle of September. Thx for all the support, encouragement, and friendly ribbing… 🙂 PS: Out of all the time I’ve spent learning how to negotiate, this was by far the most useful 90 minutes: Stanford Podcast with Joel Peterson.