Terrazura – A Build Out of an Azure based, Hasura GraphQL API on Postgres

I created this repo https://github.com/Adron/terrazura​ during a live stream on my Twitch Thrashing Code Channel 🤘 at 10am on the 30th of December, 2020. The VOD is now available on my YouTube Thrashing Code Channel https://youtube.com/thrashingcode​ . A rough as hell year, but wanted to wrap it up with some solid content. In this stream... Continue reading →

Top 3 Refactors for My Hasura GraphQL API Terraform Deploy on Azure

I posted on the 9th of September, the “Setup Postgres, and GraphQL API with Hasura on Azure”. In that post I had a few refactorings that I wanted to make. The following are the top 3 refactorings that make the project in that repo easier to use! Continue reading →

Setup Postgres, and GraphQL API with Hasura on Azure

Key Technologies: Hasura, Postgres, Terraform, Docker, and Azure. I created a data model to store railroad systems, services, scheduled, time points, and related information, detailing the schema “Beyond CRUD n’ Cruft Data-Modeling” with a few tweaks. The original I’d created for Apache Cassandra, and have since switched to Postgres giving the option of primary and... Continue reading →

WE DID IT! DataStax Astra is GA

Yesterday we finally went full GA (Generally Available) with DataStax Astra. For the quick TLDR think of it as Apache Cassandra that you can spin up as a service and use in about a minute. I, as I wrote about some months ago, joined the engineering team to help build out the system! I quickly... Continue reading →

Using Python’s Flask to Build a Basic API, Creating the didactic-engine-flask

I’ve worked with Python almost entirely from the maintenance programmer perspective. That is, I take other code written already, make edits, add features, and then redeploy it. I’ve created exactly zero greenfield applications in Python. That changes today however, with the creation of the didactic-engine-flask app! I’m creating this app with the purpose of covering... Continue reading →