This post was also published in the IBM Developer Blog. As machine-learning practitioners, we invest significant time and effort to improve our models. …

I never got used to Bash programming syntax. Whenever I have to write a more-than-trivial bash script, the strange syntax annoys me, and I have to Google every little thing I need to do, starting from how to do comparisons in if statements, how to use sed , etc. For…

So, you have a batch processing / ETL task that receives some data in a loop or per request and crunches it. It might even be running in production. …

GitHub repo: https://github.com/davidohana/kofiko-kotlin Preface Kotlin and Python are my favorite programming languages. After publishing Kofiko configuration library for Python, I decided to work on a port of it for Kotlin. Actually the porting to Kotlin took significantly more effort, for many reasons. I wanted to introduce better extensibility architecture this time…

If you have successfully integrated Generic OAuth with Grafana, you might wonder as I did, how do you allow only specific authenticated users from your organization to access Grafana? and how do you set different access rights (admin, editor, viewer) to those users? The first thing we need to do…

(Full code and samples for this post at my GitHub Repo) Suppose you have the following code which invokes a gRPC request and may fail due to various network conditions. How to retry this call until no exception raised? Wrap the call in an inner(inline) named function and use the provided retry function. Thanks to closures, we can use any variable in the scope outer to the inner function. This retry function supports the following features:

The latest full code and samples for this article are available under the Apache-2.0 license at my GitHub Repo. Yes, we love logging in colors. Yes, there are many Python libraries and sample code that show you how to colorize your stdout log messages by logging level. But I am…

The full code (library + example + .ini files) for the following article are available at GitHub : https://github.com/davidohana/LayConf In every programming language I use, one of the first thing I need is a decent configuration library. My requirements are usually: Default (hard-coded) configuration Custom configuration file Ability to override…