Python

Building a Browser-Based Terminal with Flask-SocketIO and PTY Streaming

Learn how to create a web-based terminal interface that streams a pseudo-terminal (PTY) over WebSockets using Flask-SocketIO, enabling users to interact with command-line applications like Mininet directly from their browsers without any installation.

Beginner
10 minutes
Jan 31, 2026

DuckDB as an Analytical Read Layer: Querying a Gold Store Without a Database Server

DuckDB is an in-process analytical database that runs inside your Python application, reads Parquet files natively, and handles complex SQL including window functions, QUALIFY, and MEDIAN — with no server to manage. This tutorial covers the read-only connection pattern used in the flight disruption serving layer, thread-safety in a FastAPI threadpool, and the queries that power the reliability API.

Beginner
9 minutes
Aug 10, 2026

FastAPI for ML Serving: Lifespan, Pydantic Validation, and Graceful Degradation

FastAPI's type annotations, Pydantic models, and lifespan context manager solve three common ML serving problems: loading expensive artifacts before requests start, validating inputs without manual checks, and returning useful errors when dependencies aren't ready. This tutorial walks through the patterns used in the flight disruption prediction API.

Beginner
10 minutes
Aug 10, 2026

SQL Analytics You Can Actually Trust: Building Reliability Marts with dbt

dbt turns SQL SELECT statements into tested, documented, dependency-aware data models. This tutorial builds the flight reliability marts used by the dashboard — airport, route, and carrier delay rates — starting from a staging view and layering on not-null, uniqueness, relationship, and range tests that catch data quality problems before they reach the API.

Beginner
10 minutes
Aug 10, 2026
    Ask me anything!