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The FOSDEM 2021 Call for Participation is now live

The FOSDEM 2021 Call for Participation is now live

We are happy to announce that we will be running a Python devroom again at FOSDEM 2021. As for many events, this year’s edition will be converted into an

  • Jens Roelant
    Jens Roelant
Jens Roelant 9 Dec 2020 • 3 min read
Don't be like Dr.Who
Personal

Don't be like Dr.Who

IntroductionWe all want to be nice. Well, at least I want to. I only have respect and esteem for my colleagues at Adimian, and they are all very dear to

  • Eric Gazoni
    Eric Gazoni
Eric Gazoni 3 Jan 2019 • 5 min read
Is burnout sustainable?
Personal

Is burnout sustainable?

After being diagnosed with six generalised infections in a row over the last six months, my doctor has become less and less subtle over the fact that I was basically

  • Eric Gazoni
    Eric Gazoni
Eric Gazoni 26 Oct 2018 • 4 min read
Fast xlsx parsing with Python
Technical

Fast xlsx parsing with Python

So you have tried all the tools and libraries, but extracting data from giant Excel sheets is still too slow ? On the menu for this blog post we have: Quick

  • Bertrand Chenal
    Bertrand Chenal
Bertrand Chenal 4 Sep 2018 • 10 min read
So you want to be a (Python) Developer
Technical

So you want to be a (Python) Developer

Since computers are all around us those days and many of us grew with them, it's quite tempting at some point in one's life to think "what if I

  • Eric Gazoni
    Eric Gazoni
Eric Gazoni 8 Aug 2018 • 5 min read
VPN party: chaining WireGuard and OpenVPN
Technical

VPN party: chaining WireGuard and OpenVPN

This morning when I woke up, it was to the sound of my monitoring system notifications. We have a pretty simple setup: web servers connect to the vpn server vpn

  • Eric Gazoni
    Eric Gazoni
Eric Gazoni 1 Aug 2018 • 8 min read
Securing Celery and Redis without SSL
Technical

Securing Celery and Redis without SSL

Recently we wanted to deploy a bunch of Celery workers and connect them using a Redis backend for tasks scheduling and result storage. Since the workers and Redis would be

  • Eric Gazoni
    Eric Gazoni
Eric Gazoni 18 Jul 2018 • 6 min read
Jupyter Notebooks for teaching Python

Jupyter Notebooks for teaching Python

I have been recently busy creating materials for teaching / learning Python. The motivation for creating such materials is both in the trainings we host at Adimian and also in the

  • Jerry Pussinen
    Jerry Pussinen
Jerry Pussinen 16 Jul 2018 • 5 min read
Launching our YouTube channel
Technical

Launching our YouTube channel

I have been teaching programming since 2010, and one of the most delicate topics remains the integration of test driven development in your daily practice. Every time I explain how

  • Eric Gazoni
    Eric Gazoni
Eric Gazoni 15 Jul 2018 • 2 min read
Applying at Adimian: recruiter edition
Company

Applying at Adimian: recruiter edition

Wait, why did I chose the word "recruiter" in the title? On one hand, I want you to know that I’m not a recruiter, or I don’

  • Jens Roelant
    Jens Roelant
Jens Roelant 4 Jun 2018 • 3 min read
Thug Memes everywhere!
Personal

Thug Memes everywhere!

In my previous post I discussed the benefits of investing time in personal project. As a continuum, I’ll present one of my latest personal projects in this post. In

  • Jerry Pussinen
    Jerry Pussinen
Jerry Pussinen 19 May 2018 • 3 min read
Ethics in the workplace
Personal

Ethics in the workplace

This is a presentation that I gave at the first edition of FOSDEMx, at the University of Brussels on May, 3rd 2018. It is a collection of tips and heads-up

  • Eric Gazoni
    Eric Gazoni
Eric Gazoni 10 May 2018 • 1 min read
Optimizing Python
Technical

Optimizing Python

This is a presentation that I gave at the first edition of FOSDEMx, at the University of Brussels on May, 3rd 2018. The intent is to scratch the surface of

  • Eric Gazoni
    Eric Gazoni
Eric Gazoni 7 May 2018 • 1 min read
Install an NSX Edge (and a logical router)
Technical

Install an NSX Edge (and a logical router)

So, you want to be the guy who installs an NSX Edge for the first time and does not spend a whole week (or more) to do it? Here are

  • Yann Gazoni
    Yann Gazoni
Yann Gazoni 30 Apr 2018 • 10 min read
You should spend more time on personal projects
Personal

You should spend more time on personal projects

The purpose of this blog post is to convince you to devote more time for your personal projects or to start a fresh project if you don’t have one

  • Jerry Pussinen
    Jerry Pussinen
Jerry Pussinen 26 Apr 2018 • 2 min read
We went to EuroPython 2017
Company

We went to EuroPython 2017

This year Adimian was Gold sponsor of the EuroPython in Rimini. Why sponsoring the event you will ask ? Turns out we have been building a business on the shoulders of

  • Eric Gazoni
    Eric Gazoni
Eric Gazoni 30 Jul 2017 • 1 min read
To know where to stop
Personal

To know where to stop

This is the kind of horror story that happens now and then. It's a story where pride and arrogance will lead you into a pit of despair. This is the

  • Eric Gazoni
    Eric Gazoni
Eric Gazoni 1 Jul 2017 • 3 min read
Working at Adimian
Company

Working at Adimian

So you're wondering how it is to work at Adimian? Follow me! We are a small consulting company operating between France and Belgium, and we are specialists in both Python

  • Eric Gazoni
    Eric Gazoni
Eric Gazoni 24 Dec 2016 • 2 min read
The rise of Data Science
Technical

The rise of Data Science

The shape of things to come In the past few months, I think we've witnessed the end of the "Big Data" hype, and the rise of the "

  • Eric Gazoni
    Eric Gazoni
Eric Gazoni 13 Jul 2016 • 3 min read
Debugging code within Docker container
Technical

Debugging code within Docker container

Docker everywhere At Adimian, Docker really changed the way we deploy applications. We've been playing with it since the beta, and using it in production since version 1.0. By

  • Eric Gazoni
    Eric Gazoni
Eric Gazoni 7 Aug 2015 • 3 min read
Enabling graphs on your shinken monitor
Technical

Enabling graphs on your shinken monitor

If you've set up a shinken monitor, you'll probably be a bit disappointed that the graph feature is not included, and that setting it up isn't all that easy. Luckily,

  • Maarten De Paepe
    Maarten De Paepe
Maarten De Paepe 10 Dec 2014 • 2 min read
Shinken services and you (writing your own service)
Technical

Shinken services and you (writing your own service)

Introduction Shinken is a monitoring service based on Nagios written in python. The cool stuff here is that it's written in python, but also that you are able to use

  • Maarten De Paepe
    Maarten De Paepe
Maarten De Paepe 8 Dec 2014 • 5 min read
Enable AUFS support for docker on SoYouStart (OVH)
Technical

Enable AUFS support for docker on SoYouStart (OVH)

I'm using a SoYouStart server from OVH for a project where I need to deploy Docker containers. I kept having errors of the like: Error response from daemon: Cannot start

  • Eric Gazoni
    Eric Gazoni
Eric Gazoni 30 Oct 2014 • 4 min read
How to fix a broken Ubuntu package installation
Technical

How to fix a broken Ubuntu package installation

Today I wanted to reinstall an openldap server for which I didn't have credentials, but where I had root access. Some files were left after I removed the package, so

  • Eric Gazoni
    Eric Gazoni
Eric Gazoni 29 Oct 2014 • 2 min read
CTE and closure tables
Technical

CTE and closure tables

Closure tables There is a lot of techniques to store and manipulate tree-like structures in a relational database. Among them, the one that is noteworthy for his simplicity and performance

  • Bertrand Chenal
    Bertrand Chenal
Bertrand Chenal 23 Oct 2014 • 4 min read
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