Setting the Starting Directory for Windows Subsystem for Linux

I use Windows Subsystem for Linux almost every day. I run Ubuntu 20.04 for almost all of my development work. I recently re-installed Windows because I upgraded my PC after many years. One thing that has always bothered me is that when you launch WSL for the first time it doesn’t put you into your… Continue reading Setting the Starting Directory for Windows Subsystem for Linux

Pandas & NumPy with AWS Lambda

Fun fact: Pandas and NumPy don’t work out of the box with Lambda. The libraries that you might download from your development machine probably won’t work either. The standard Lambda Python environment is very barebones by default. There is no point in loading in a bunch of libraries if they aren’t needed. This is why… Continue reading Pandas & NumPy with AWS Lambda

A File Management Architecture

This post is a continuation of my article: “A File Extraction Project”. This project has been a great learning experience for both frontend and backend application architecture and design. Below you will find a diagram and an explanation of all the pieces that make this work. The entire architecture is powered by Flask on an… Continue reading A File Management Architecture