I personally have been using Ubuntu extensively for the software development. As you might be aware, Ubuntu can be natively installed on both Windows and Mac Intel hardware to dual boot with the respective OS. However, with new Mac M1 chipset, it has not been possible yet to natively install it. Asahi Linux project is […]
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I have been programming for more than two decades now. In my programming journey so far, I have used Windows OS, MacOS and Linux OS. All of these operating systems have advantages and limitations. However, I found Linux to be the most programmer friendly. I am certain that there are other developers who would argue
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Pandas is very widely used Python library for data manipulation and analysis. It allows to load data in a tabular format to manipulate it for different analysis and graphical presentation. DataFrame is the key data structure in Pandas to perform tabular operations. First step while analyzing data with Pandas is to read a file and
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Software container is a lightweight executable that runs consistently on any infrastructure. It is an instance of software bundle called an image. The image is simply a bundle of operating system (OS) libraries and dependencies to run application code. Using OS virtualization, a platform provides the ability to instantiate container from the image. Docker is
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GraphQL is one of the most popular query and manipulation languages for APIs. There are various libraries to build GraphQL API in different programming languages. With the popularity of serverless architecture on cloud infrastructure, serverless GraphQL API is becomming more and more common. Azure does not offer any fully managed services such as AWS AppSync,
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GraphQL is one of the most widely used query and manipulation languages for APIs. It is a great alternative to REST APIs due to various advantages. I have worked on various products that used GraphQL as a middleware; developed in TypeScript as well as Python. During those implementations, I wanted to optimize my changes for
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Azure Data Factory is a cloud hosted ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) service provided by Microsoft Azure. It allows to connect to wide variety of systems, transform that information and load it. The service is Serverless, highly scalable and can support processing large amount of data. When you initially develop a data flow, the processing engine
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While working on a project, I came across a use case to bulk delete documents in Azure Cosmos DB Container using Azure Data Factory (ADF). There are few approaches, however it mainly involves either implementing a stored procedure or a function. This article provides the steps to implement bulk delete of documents in Cosmos DB
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