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How is your progress and what is your background?

@@paultvshow Progress is slow lol. No programming background. I'm just teaching myself python. I was working in CC processing, specifically helping merchants with chargebacks, and had some ideas for data analysis tools to be used in the process. I tried building them in Excel and MS Access. Not impressed with what I was able to come up with lol. So, I began learning Python to develop the tools I had in mind. When I was going through tutorials, came across a few on API development and they really peaked my interest. If I'm being completely honest, I'm have a bit of an irrational fear of putting my work on github because it's garbage lol. I know I should and that the community is really helpful. It's just that it's so public. If you have any tips on building APIs or programming in general, I'll take all the advice I can get :)

@@AmbushEveryoneBest advice I can give is that tutorials as best for when you are already knowledgeable about programming and want to see how different people solve a problem. Best thing you can do to further yourself is instead of looking up a tutorial on something, think about the problem you want to solve, break that down into smaller problems, and then google or look on Stack Overflow to see how to solve that specific problem. Don’t copy pasta the code, really understand how they solved the problem and write out the code specific to your domain. Like, with building APIs maybe you have something working you like and you bring it to your team and they say, this is cool but we’re worried about security, can you validate users? Now you have to build an authorization workflow, so you lookup how to do that. You figure out that you need to send credentials and store and use tokens. Then you have to figure out joe to validate that token in each api you’re using (hint, it’s another API [insert Xibit meme here]). Then you need new tables in your database, you need to lean how to hash passwords, etc. now there’s different ways to do that where you don’t have to roll your own solution, but it will expand your knowledge and when you do reach for a readymade solution or library, you know how it works under the hood and when it can break. Hope that helps!

@@AmbushEveryoneif you ever want to go deeper, check out the Odin project. I maintain and author lessons for it, and it’s what taught me all the skills I use at my day job and web dev agency. It’s 100% free with zero cost, so I’m not tryna sell you something it’s just a great resource. If you ever stop by the discord, I’ll see you there.

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So a short that is less than 30s you've summarised? Lol

​@@georgepagotelis bro it's 2024 a whole year must be served in 3 seconds duuuh

Where I get the ebook

Thats also what I was thinking.

I came here to say the same thing. But you do have options. * use a lower compression level, often it's way faster for similar gains * use a different compression scheme, you can compress things using not gzip * use parallel compression pgzip exists

that also challenged me ..maybe he meant videos and text files

But the things we transfer needs to be downloaded at other end thereby faster response.

not at all. these are very common design patterns. if you use a framework, you'd get most, if not all, for free.