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Improve your Psycopg2 executions for PostgreSQL in Python

01/07/2022

I’m sure everybody who worked with Python and a PostgreSQL database is familiar or definitely heard about the psycopg2 library. It is the most popular PostgreSQL database adapter for the Python programming language. In my work, I come in contact with this library every day and execute hundreds of automated statements. As always, I try to improve my code and execution speed, because, in the cloud, time is money. The longer your code runs the...

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Making binary annotations less boring

31/07/2020

Introduction For a university project, I’m developing a Music recommendation classifier based on the Spotify API. The idea is to recommend new music to the user, based on songs he personally likes or dislikes and on the musical components of the song (speed, tonality, instrumentality and many more). The preparation of the dataset usually is the most time-consuming part of any machine learning project. This usually consists of gathering...

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Using Azure Functions with Python

08/05/2020

Overview Lately, I worked a lot with the Azure Cloud. Overall I have to say Azure offers a lot but is still not on the same level as its hardest competitors (AWS, Google). One thing that caught my eye is the compatibility of certain programming languages. Azure supports a few different languages (C#, JavaScript, Java, Python, etc.) but the supported features for these languages differ a lot. I think Azure Cloud is really great for...

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