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Managing Subscriptions with Stripe Checkout
Software as a service (SaaS) nowadays makes it easy to integrate e-commerce solutions into your application, and nothing comes close to the capabilities of Stripe. Founded in 2010 by Patrick and John Collison, Stripe has democratized online payment processing for…

Streaming Real Estate Data
Big data in real estate is a prime use case for real-time stream processing—a programming paradigm that allows us to instantaneously respond to data as it arrives. It is the antithesis to batch processing, whereby all data is loaded into…

Multiple Databases with Rails 6 and RDS
Rails 6 shipped with the ability to use multiple databases in one application, making automatic connection switching as simple as adding a connects_to method in the respective class. To go a step further, we’ll set up an Amazon RDS instance,…

Background Processing with RETS and Sidekiq
Managing large quantities of real estate data is computationally intensive, and well-suited for background processing. The task involves importing thousands of MLS® listings into a Redis in-memory data structure store, using an open government API for geocoding, and association with…

Python for Real Estate
“Maintainable code is more important than clever code.” – Guido van Rossum, creator of Python During this lockdown, I’ve been spending time taking online courses, specifically in the areas of Data Science, Machine Learning, and Python. My go-to platform right…