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Unless you have been hiding under a rock, you have probably used Google Translate on many occasions in your life. Whenever you try to translate a word or a sentence from a certain language to another, it is the Google Translate API which brings you the desired results in the...
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Databases are a crucial part of modern applications since they store the data used to power them. Generally, we use the Structured Query Language (SQL) to perform queries on the database and manipulate the data inside of it. Though initially done via dedicated SQL tools, we've quickly moved to using...
Robley Gori
Python 3.6 introduced a new way to format strings: f-Strings. It is faster than other string formatting methods in Python, and they allow us to evaluate Python expressions inside a string. In this post, we'll look at the various ways we can format strings in Python. Then we'll have...
Sajjad Heydari
Ensemble classification models can be powerful machine learning tools capable of achieving excellent performance and generalizing well to new, unseen datasets. The value of an ensemble classifier is that, in joining together the predictions of multiple classifiers, it can correct for errors made by any individual classifier, leading to better...
Dan Nelson
Heroku is a hosting service that supports Node.js applications. It is easy to use and its functionality can be extended with add-ons. There are add-ons for various things, including messaging/queues, logging, metrics, and of course, data stores. The data store add-ons support popular databases, like PostgreSQL, Redis, and...
Tom Kadwill
When developing a web application, the natural progression is to take it online and make it available for end users. To make this task possible, and easier, there are numerous cloud platforms available to choose from to host your application - Heroku is one of them. Heroku provides a platform...
Dhrubajyoti Bhattacharjee
Java defines a method as a unit of the tasks that a class can perform. And proper programming practice encourages us to ensure a method does one thing and one thing only. It is also normal to have one method call another method when conducting a routine. Still, you expect...
Hiram Kamau
Some functions have no arguments, others have multiple. There are times we have functions with arguments we don't know about beforehand. We may have a variable number of arguments because we want to offer a flexible API to other developers or we don't know the input size. With Python, we...
Testing is a fundamental part of the software development process. When creating web applications, we make calls to third-party APIs, databases, or other services in our environment. Therefore, our tests must validate those request are sent and responses handled correctly. However, we may not always be able to communicate with...
Allan Mogusu
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