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 dive into the
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 wrote a smartphone
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 server connects to
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 internet-facing, we wanted
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 personal need for
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 to change habits
Open for business! A few blog posts back I somewhat shared a "sneak-peak" of our office in progress. Happy to say we’re finally able to reveal the whole thing! For the past 7-8
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’t consider myself
Life at Adimian: my first year in retrospect My cursor has been blinking for quite some time, floating in this empty document. So many things have happened over the last year that I’m finding it quite difficult deciding where to
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 addition to presenting
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 on what I
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 what it takes
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 some tips to
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 yet. The motivation
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 the great Python
Company Memories of Rimini (2017) Note: this is a guest post by Andrew Dodd who was developper for Adimian from 2017 to 2018 I'm writing the first cut of this on the Saturday following Europython 2017. I'm writing
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 story of the
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 and scientific computing.
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 "Data Science"
Company Why we don't offer company cars After a recent conversation with a potential candidate, I realised that my take on not offering a company car to the company employees as a form of income was not well understood, so here is my take on explaining it.
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 the end of
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, this guide will
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 many, if not
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 container f5fa26a2b00e154dd851cfbf4459d03e996dea7b3fc18d9c51dc5b24bb132e32: fork/
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 I tried to
