Grep examples: Regular Expressions
09 Oct 2022 Examples on how to use regular expressions in conjunction with GNU grep. Examples on how to modify regular expressions, use multiple types, common issues and solutions. Examples mostly use Perl-compatible regular expressions (PCRE)
Read More ›Splunk Examples: Calculating Ratios Between Events
14 Sep 2022 Splunk examples on how to take data from several sources and combine them to calculate ratios or percentages between one event and the other, relative counts, etc.
Read More ›Splunk Examples: Manipulating Text and Strings
12 Sep 2022 Examples on how to perform common operations on strings within splunk queries.
Read More ›qpdf Examples: Merging, Splitting, Compressing PDF Files
01 Aug 2022 Examples on common operations you may want to do on PDF files using qpdf. Examples from unix-like systems.
Read More ›Pandas Dataframe examples: Plotting Histograms
31 Jul 2022 Several examples on how to draw histograms based on pandas dataframes.
Read More ›Action-based VS Process-based Solutions to Problems
24 Jul 2022 Solving a problem once is very different from setting up a system that ensures the problem gets addressed consistently. In other words, solving problems in the small is different from solving those very problems "in the large", at scale.
Read More ›Git Examples: Comparing Branches, locally and remotely
24 Jul 2022 Comparing and diffing code across branches and working directories on git.
Read More ›Splunk Examples: Renaming/Replacing Fields and Values
13 Jun 2022 Renaming and replacing fields, values, etc on Splunk. Examples and reference using the tutorial data from the docs.
Read More ›Pandas Examples: Looping over Dataframe Rows
13 Jun 2022 Everything you need to know about how to loop and/or iterate over rows in a pandas dataframe, as efficiently as possible.
Read More ›Spark SQL date/time Arithmetic examples: Adding, Subtracting, etc
12 Jun 2022 Examples on how to subtract, add dates and timestamps in Spark SQL Dataframes, along with a summary.
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