Valerie Parham-Thompson

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It's 40 degrees out.

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I'm sharing how to pinpoint YugabyteDB APIs you need for automation projects through docs categories, keyword search, UI route mapping, and source code exploration. valerieparhamthompson.com/posts/findin...

Worked on a new jupyter notebook today for retrieving expiration dates and counts from various certificates in YugabyteDB, using the control plane APIs. Going to gather a few more of these before I submit the PR.

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I’ve typically used the ones already built into my web host at the time. Awstats, etc. whatever is in the control panel. Not super granular but works fine for my needs.

A guy jogged past me this morning on the trail wearing a #kubecon 2024 tshirt. All the way back home here in North Carolina! Well, it reminds me about this project, which links to the talks on YouTube, with some other neat features. dfeldman.org/post/2024-11...

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One of my favorite volunteer gigs is judging submissions for Congressional App. Can't wait to see who wins for our district. Such impressive ideas & implementations -- we're in good hands with the upcoming generation of technologists. (For next year: www.congressionalappchallenge.us/students/stu...)

Screenshot of Jupyter notebook in github: "User Management - This notebook will demonstrate the platform APIs for local user management. Note that RBAC uses a different workflow."

Committed this new example Jupyter notebook for Yugabyte REST APIs yesterday, for local platform user management. github.com/yugabyte/yug... #python #yugabytedb

One of the API examples I shared during the Distributed SQL Summit last week: github.com/dataindataou... Longer transcript and walkthrough coming. #yugabyte #distributed #sql #livedemo

There was a lot of walking between venues and restaurants in SLC! But the dog is happy I'm home to include him in long walks.

Discover the future of cloud-native distributed databases at #KubeCon + #CloudNativeCon in Salt Lake City. Let's meet at booth M11. lnkd.in/efw632nE

Stop by to discover why #PostgreSQL-compatible, distributed, #YugabyteDB is the ideal database choice for #cloud-native applications.

Migrating data from one database management system to another? Watch the reserved keywords. #datamigration #schema #modernization valerieparhamthompson.com/posts/reserv...

New blog post outlining the details of calling the College Scorecard API to get #opendata and displaying results using #python on a map using the Plotly library. valerieparhamthompson.com/posts/colleg... I'm looking around for more things to map, because this is fun. :)

Using Plotly to create a simple database network map. Had fun with this one. valerieparhamthompson.com/posts/plotly...

Code as a way to ramp up new users of database software.

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#python #CLI #typer #databases #replication

Which Open-Source Database? - Valerie Parham-Thompson | Open-Source Database Consultant This was the kind of database consultant I intended to be -- providing value to engineering teams by guiding them to the right system, helping them architect the most performant database solution, and...

Which open-source database? www.valerieparhamthompson.com/open-source-...

Database scaling for seasonal increases - Valerie Parham-Thompson | Open-Source Database Consultant Five things to consider as you prepare your database scaling to support temporary increased demand.

Preparing your database for seasonal demand requires thinking ahead… setting up monitoring for your workload, knowing how long it takes to implement scaling, and doing predictive forecasts. www.valerieparhamthompson.com/database-sca...

Using College Scorecard Open Data - Valerie Parham-Thompson Personal experience using College Scorecard open data for a college search in 2023, using custom fields not on college search website forms.

Most college search websites present forms that are too limited in search terms and subject you to marketing.
Turns out, they use open data from the US Department of Education, and you can use this data directly. www.valerieparhamthompson.com/open-data-co...