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The Apache Beam SDK for Python is currently lacking some of the transforms found in the Java SDK. I created a very minimal example of an Apache Beam MongoDB read transform for Python that might be useful for someone else looking for an answer.
I will update this post in the future if/when the Apache maintainers include support for MongoDB in the SDK. I know I could contribute to the project directly, but I don’t have time for it right now unfortunately :-)
At the beginning of 2016, I was hoping for a more “creative 2016” and had internalized a few secret New Year Resolutions: Write a blog post at least once per month, release a music track every two months, learn to draw, read more books, make weekly programming projects, and a few others that I cannot… Continue reading I hope you learned something from that
Here are a few things that I liked in 2016, written in traditional popular culture best-of style, with a small code-related item added to the mix. I did not spend a lot of time thinking about these so the list is true to the name of this blog: Thought Flow. A bag of GIF I… Continue reading Best of 2016
Word Of The Year is without a doubt “Post-Truth” . In my interpretation, it perfectly captures two observations about the current world: Truth largely does not matter anymore. We have moved beyond truth, we are post truth. Truth can be created after (post) a statement is made — it does not have to be true… Continue reading Post-Truth
You know that time you realized that you have been doing something the wrong way for a very long time and then finally realize the wrongness. For the sake of the low profanity rating of this blog, let’s call these golly gosh moments, although the Millennials might better understand #FML. Homer just says do’h. So… Continue reading Golly Gosh Moments