Background In many applications, there are times we need to perform tasks that take a lot of time to execute. These tasks might include something like: downloading data from an internet source, processing large sets of data, or performing complex computations. To handle such tasks efficiently, we need a way to…

Background With any cloud service, it is important to secure your credentials to protect your data/service from unauthorized access. In this segment, I will demonstrate how to use Python to generate ephemeral credentials for authenticating to Amazon Redshift. And also explain why ephemeral credentials are safer than static credentials. What are Ephemeral Credentials? 🤔 Ephemeral credentials…

Some background I love movies, and all things cinema-related 📽 🎞️ 🎬️🍿🎫. I truly think it is immensely cool how so much painstaking and beautiful work goes into making movies. Years and years of hard work, involving meticulous planning, growing expenses, constant deliberation and thinking. All of that hard work compressed into…

Background Python offers several approaches to concurrency and parallelism. Two of the most popular ways to achieve concurrent execution in Python are multithreading and multiprocessing. While both techniques aim to improve the performance of a Python program, they differ in their approach and use cases. In this segment, I will walk…