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  • Application Development
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Deploying a Dockerized Django Application to Production

Discover how to efficiently deploy a Django web application using Docker, Gunicorn, and Nginx on DigitalOcean. Follow this comprehensive guide to set up your environment, configure your application, and ensure your web app is scalable and production-ready.
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  • Application Development
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How to Set up Django with Docker, PostgreSQL and React

Figuring out how to set up Django with Docker, PostgreSQL, and React can be a complex task, especially if you, like me, don’t really code much nowadays. The boilerplate effort…
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  • Recruiting

How to Craft and Optimize an Awesome Tech Resume

Most tech resumes suck. As someone who’s worked in tech for years, and spent time on two startups in the human capital space (ProjectSherpa and Scouted) focused on analyzing resumes,…
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  • Recruiting

Do finance majors get the finance jobs?

The following is a copy of a post I authored about finance majors for Scouted. see the original over at the Scouted blog. *** Back when I was in college,…
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  • Product Management

What is The Product Development Process?

Or: do Ninja Coders Write in Invisible Ink? The following is a copy of a post I authored about the product development process for Scouted – see the original over…
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  • Application Development

Web Scraping, Part 4 – Scrapy

While it’s all well and good to know how to retrieve pages, parse them, and build a crude web crawler, there’s no reason to reinvent the wheel given there are…
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  • Application Development

Web Scraping, Part 3: Scraping Case Study

In this post, we’re going to use what was covered on web scraping in the first two posts (#1 and #2) in this series for a web scraping case study: scraping…
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Web Scraping, Part 2: Parsing

In the last post, we saw that many times the web page you request is not the page you receive. Similarly, often the page you’ve downloaded looks nothing like the…
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  • Application Development

Web Scraping, Part 1: Web Scraping Basics

While I have some writing momentum, I’m going to take a stab at a series on teaching some web scraping.  My plan is to do this through some case studies of…
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  • Application Development

On Web Scraping

Web scraping is the art of programmatically extracting content from the web. For those entirely unfamiliar with the concept of web scraping, consider this example.  It was theorized that doctors who…
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