Function decorators are used in many python packages and libraries. Often, you see the @ sign in code before you learn what it is, so you get back to read about decorators. We'll use a simple example to demonstrate the use of decorators. What do we try to achieve Suppose you have a simple, 2 params function like the …

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Open Function Basics The open function documentation contains a lot of parameters The only positional parameter (file) specifies the path of the file to be read.

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Python Basics Creating Python virtual environments with Python venv Values and Vars Python builtin Types bytes Python Functions function parameters function parameters default values function decorators basics function decorators with parameters Python Object Oriented Iterators Generators 1 Python I/O open function …

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About bash functions Also called Shell Functions Once a function is defined, it is used like a "regular" command Shell functions are executed in the current shell context; no new process is created to interpret them. Function Syntax Functions are declared using this syntax: 1fname () compound-command [ …

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The basic Truth of Python values and vars All of the values in Python are really objects. You can think of objects as bags that contain the value itself, with some more operations that you can use with the value (these are called methods). We'll talk about object in more details in later posts. Each object (i.e value) …

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Parameters and Arguments Here's a demo of a function definitions and call. (comments tell you where parameters are used, and where arguments are used) 1def twice(num): # num is a parameter 2 print(2 * num) 3 4twice(5) # 5 is an argument 5x = 3 6twice(x) # x is an argument Positional and Keyword Arguments This is a …

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About AWS Global Accelerator AWS Global Accelerator is a networking service that improves the availability and performance of your applications by directing traffic through AWS's global network infrastructure. It provides fast, consistent network performance and automatically reroutes traffic to healthy endpoints in …

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(this post if part of the material I cover in my devops course) Parameter Store Parameter Store is a feature of the AWS Systems Manager service. It is a centralized store to manage your configuration data, whether plain-text data such as database strings or secrets such as passwords. This allows you to separate your …

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(this post if part of the material I cover in my devops course) AWS Shield/Shield Advanced AWS Shield is layer-4 protection, defending you from DDOS attacks like SYN flood, UDP floods or other reflection attacks. It does that by setting static thresholds and implementing Inline attack mitigation. AWS Shield Advanced …

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What are Data Streams Data streams refer to continuous flows of data that are generated continuously over time Data streams are continuous and potentially infinite in nature. Data streams can originate from various sources such as: sensors social media feeds financial transactions website clickstreams etc. …

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