The concept of map-reduce computing approach on example of Python (declarative vs imperative iteration)

This post is a St. Nicholas’ Day gift for one of my students who asked to explain the concept of map-reduce used to solve computationally complex problems. I will do this, on the example, using Python language, which is known for its brevity. At the same time, I will be happy to test a new […]

Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB) as a blockchain database as a service

Nowadays, everybody talks about blockchain technologies but not many understand all the concepts behind it. Even less have any practical experience with these issues. Therefore here, we will try to put some light on it. When in June our request for preview access to the QLDB service was approved, we all rubbed our hands together […]

How to make beautiful offline plots in a few lines of code in Python

We all love watching beautiful and self-understanding plots instead of a bunch of data presented in tabular forms. Also, we want to present our data as plots to be more convincing. There are numerous platforms and tools to help us with this job, starting from common office suits and ending with dedicated software packages or […]