I’m going to be presenting a talk at a Mongo DB User group meetup later today and I thought I’d write about it so that it would - serve as reading material for folks wanting to go through the content of my talk later let everyone else know what this is all about. Let me pre-emptively say, I don’t know why I chose this to be the “TITLE” of the talk. It is extremely dry. But the topic is actually a lot of fun! ...
Installing Postgres locally and connecting to it from Python First of all, what is Postgres and why do I care? Over the course of our working with data, we come across a lot of ways of storing data - cache, in-mem, files, file based databases, SQL databases, NoSQL databases etc. Each option has a specific set of usecases that are best satisfied by said storage mechanism. Postgres DB is one such storage mechanism - specifically an Open Source, Relational Database. ...
So, I looked up a lot of links while learning how to configure Gunicorn and Nginx for a Flask app I’m building. An article on the specifics of what I learnt will follow this one. This one focuses on the links and resources themselves - First of all, you’re probably asking - Why do I need Gunicorn and Nginx? That’s what I looked up first as well. https://serverfault.com/questions/331256/why-do-i-need-nginx-and-something-like-gunicorn Next, how to actually go about the whole process? The obvious links: - https://gunicorn.org/#quickstart - https://www.linode.com/docs/web-servers/nginx/how-to-configure-nginx/ - http://nginx.org/en/docs/beginners_guide.html - https://www.fullstackpython.com/green-unicorn-gunicorn.html ...