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23  octobre     13h28
Upgrading PostgreSQL From v11 to v15 in Your Django Application
   In the ever evolving world of data management, staying up to date with the latest technologies and best practices is imperative. One crucial aspect of this is ensuring your PostgreSQL version remains current. On November, , PostgreSQL reaches end of life EOL . This post provides a...
16  octobre     18h36
Caktus Origin Story
   Not long after NASA launched the Phoenix Mars Lander in August , an unassuming web development shop started in North Carolina. A group of friends, fresh out of college, created Caktus Consulting Group, a satiric spelling derived from the first letter of the names of the four founders. You can...
22  août     11h22
Migrating a Django Project from a GPU to a Convenience Image on CircleCI
   Recently we learned that as of September th, several linux images will be deprecated, including the one we used, ubuntu : . Therefore, after September th, our pipelines would have failed. To avoid this, we switched several machines in our Django project from Ubuntu GPU images...
14  août     18h03
Addressing the recent uptick in scam job offers on LinkedIn related to Caktus Group LLC.
   Beginning on July th, many individuals contacted us asking if a job offer they had received from us was a legitimate offer, wanting to ensure that they were talking with the correct person at the company. The unfortunate truth was that none of the potential applicants seeking information had...
10  juillet     17h07
Migrate to Amazon EKS Add-ons
   Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service Amazon EKS released support for operational cluster add on software, or Amazon EKS add ons, around Kubernetes version . in May . These include: Amazon VPC CNI plugin for Kubernetes CoreDNS Kube proxy Amazon EBS CSI driver Follow this guide to install the...
27  juin     15h50
Set up AWS CloudTrail to Monitor Application Events using Ansible
   AWS CloudTrail is a service that enables monitoring and recording of account activities. In this post, we will use CloudTrail to monitor CPU usage and to monitor our nodes. We will use Ansible to automate the setup process and as a means to document our setup IaC . This post assumes you already...
09  juin     13h24
GitHub Submodules: Leveraging Branches to Allow Independent Updates in Parent Applications
   Recently I’ve been working with projects that use GitHub submodules. According to GitHub, submodules allow you to include or embed one or more repositories as a sub folder inside another repository. Submodules help us keep code dry when functionality is shared across multiple repositories....
03  mai     14h00
Update an Amazon EKS cluster Kubernetes version to 1.23
   Introduction Caktus is committed to developing and maintaining high quality web applications for clients, so we focus on software sustainability. Software sustainability refers to the ability of software to continue to function as expected over time, even as hardware and software environments...
05  avril     14h00
Analyze data with SQL window functions
   We regularly use tools like PostgreSQL, Pandas, and Jupyter Notebooks to analyze data here at Caktus. Recently, we were reviewing North Carolina traffic stop data for the NC CopWatch project and had the opportunity to use PostgreSQL’s window functions, which are helpful when aggregating data. To...
28  mars     14h00
Begin your Data Analysis Journey with Pandas and Seaborn
   Lately, there has been a lot of talk about scoring in the NBA because LeBron James surpassed Kareem Abdul Jabbar with , career points. I have noticed that there is not much discussion about post season scoring, so I searched for this dataset on Kaggle nba playoffs.csv which contains the top...