A step-by-step guide to mining news data — Welcome to this practical guide on extracting news articles from the Reuters website using Python and Scrapy. In the age of data-driven decision-making, having the ability to harvest news data can empower us in numerous ways, from understanding trending topics to conducting sentiment analysis and enhancing data journalism. …

Python is already one of the most popular programming languages, and it’s only getting more popular. In fact, experts predict that Python will soon dominate the market, with demand for developers and services increasing exponentially. …

Serverless computing has been one of the most talked about topics in the cloud computing world in recent years. It promises to revolutionize the way developers build and deploy applications and services, and has been heralded as the future of cloud computing. But what is serverless computing and how can…

The stack, the architecture, and what it takes — Starting a new web project can be a daunting task, with many different components to consider and configure. At ACA, we’ve now kickstarted a few projects, and one of the more time-consuming yet generic parts we’ve had to build every time is the initial project architecture — the foundation of…

Setting up an authentication server — Imagine that you are the lead developer for a popular web-based project management application that is used by companies around the world. Your application has a large number of users, including both employees of the companies using your application and external contractors and partners. As the number of users and…

Python and NodeJS as back-end solutions — In a previous article, we already explained the difference between front-end and back-end frameworks. If you’ve missed it, be sure to check it out before diving into what follows! Building modern web applications First look at the front-end and the back-endkzhekov.medium.com Developing a maintainable and performant web application Python (with Flask or FastAPI) and NodeJS are both great back-end solutions for building…

Peeking into the stack — Today’s web applications and websites must be available 24/7 from anywhere in the world and have to be usable and pleasant to use from any device or screen size. In addition, they need to be secure, flexible and scalable to meet spikes in demand. …

Hello again! If you’ve missed the first part of this series, you can read it by clicking on the box below. The first part covers the introduction to NLP and the overview of the project as a whole. …

This project implements a complete cloud-hosted NLP pipeline for generating (hopefully) well-written horoscopes using Python 3 for the machine learning, data processing and API serving. It uses a variety of open source libraries such as Huggingface’s Transformers, PyTorch and FastAPI. It also has a small demo website implemented in HTML…