14 March 2024
14 March 2024

Kubernetes For Complete Beginners

Container orchestration has become a cornerstone of modern application deployment. For beginners stepping into the world of modern application deployment and orchestration, understanding the essence and significance of Kubernetes is essential. A container is a compact and self-contained package comprising essential components like code, runtime, libraries, and system tools necessary for running an application. Container … Read more
12 March 2024
12 March 2024

Transforming and Analyzing Data in PostgreSQL

In our data hungry world, knowing how to effectively load and transform data from various sources is a highly valued skill. Over the last couple of years, I’ve learned how useful many of the data manipulation functions in PostgreSQL can supercharge your data transformation and analysis process, using just PostgreSQL and SQL. For the last … Read more
05 March 2024
05 March 2024

Serverless Authentication methods in web apps.

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Serverless authentication methods refer to approaches for managing user identity and access without the need for traditional server-based authentication systems. Instead of relying on a dedicated server, authentication tasks are outsourced to cloud-based services or specialized third-party providers. This allows developers to focus on application logic while leveraging secure, scalable, and often managed authentication solutions. … Read more
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04 March 2024
04 March 2024

The Value of Conference Speaking

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Editor note: The call for speakers is open at on the Pass Data Community Summit 2024 Site, so join Jason in throwing your hat into the ring for this year’s Summit coming up in Seattle November 4-8! My Power BI Speaking Tour: This is the Way Over the past year, I decided I was going … Read more
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01 March 2024
01 March 2024

Building MongoDB Aggregations

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In the previous article in this series, I discussed how to use a find statement to retrieve data from a MongoDB collection. However, the find method is not the only option for retrieving document data. Another important method is aggregate, which lets you group documents, perform calculations on those groups, and in other ways extract … Read more
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29 February 2024
29 February 2024

Find and Replace Text in Strings in T-SQL

String manipulation is an inevitable task for developers and data professionals alike. Despite all the best efforts to normalize databases, eventually we are faced with some sort of text-based data stored within a relational database and need to extract detailed information from it. Those of us who have tackled these challenges fully understand how code … Read more
22 February 2024
22 February 2024

Making Accessibility Part of the Design Process – Part 3

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Naviagation, flow, and testing it all In this last segment of the series, we’ll delve into the crucial elements of navigation and flow, exploring further the part of web accessibility that ensures users can effortlessly navigate online content. Additionally, we’ll shine a spotlight on the indispensable practice of regular testing, an ongoing commitment that goes … Read more
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19 February 2024
19 February 2024

Database Feature Toggles

In software development the concept of feature toggles are used to selectively turn on and off features. They are, for example, used to restrict some newly introduced features to a select group to see how these features work. While this concept has been long used for user-facing application code, it is also a practice that … Read more
29 January 2024
29 January 2024

C# Cancellation Tokens in AWS

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A colleague of mine once asked about cancellation tokens in AWS. This question got me thinking about this problem and got me curious on whether there is any support. Turns out it is an interesting topic with lots of pitfalls. If you don’t know about cancellations tokens, they are used in C# are used to … Read more
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22 January 2024
22 January 2024

Querying MongoDB Documents

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MongoDB provides an efficient environment for storing document data at scale. However, most of your interactions with MongoDB will not be related to storing data but rather to querying data. The better you understand how to retrieve the data you need, the more effectively you can interact with MongoDB and support your data-driven applications. To … Read more
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