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Confining NGINX

Securing NGINX on Kubernetes: A Deep Dive into Security Context This post is about securing one of the best web servers out there: NGINX. When running NGINX on …

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How to make money in Natural Gas with Python

In one of the previous posts, we were talking about simple gas storage model as a business opportunity. That model has one serious drawback: it does not take …

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Machine learning with Python and C#

This post is about practical challenges with data science. At Process IQ we like Python and friends. It is a great language: it is expressive, easy to read and comes …

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Testing Service Workers with Puppeteer

Warning: Technical content inside 😉 Service Worker is a JavaScript that your browser runs in the background. It is not part of the web page, rather it allows to add …

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Turbocharging Excel

Aka: Fast data retrieval from a database. In a lot of enterprises that Process IQ had a pleasure to work with, there is always an Excel spreadsheet that implements a …

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Faking It At Work: Testing with Javascript and Faker

As known as: Generating test data. Here at Process IQ we are obsessed with automated testing to ensure our customers get top notch products and service. We do all of …

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Seasons Greetings from us

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Scenario analysis for Natural Gas options

Using Excel for decision making again! When trading or pricing options, there is always a dilemma what would be best structure for given assumed market scenario. …

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How to make your boss happy

By speeding up that boring reconciliation with Excel. A very frequent activity in any business is checking if an invoice, order list or any other data sets are …

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Taking chances in Monte Carlo

MathJax.Hub.Config({ tex2jax: { inlineMath: [ ['$','$'], ["\\(","\\)"] ], processEscapes: true } }); One of the cool ways to learn few tricks with Excel is to use …

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Help! My python code is slow

TLDR: List comprehension is faster then append Ok, so this isn’t a picture of a python snake (this is a boa constrictor), but it is the same story with append …

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How to make money in Natural Gas with Excel

MathJax.Hub.Config({ tex2jax: { inlineMath: [ ['$','$'], ["\\(","\\)"] ], processEscapes: true } }); One of the strategies is to buy cheap summer gas, store it for …

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Help! My Excel is too slow

Quick tip for those who suffer with slow Excel syndrome (SES). The main culprit are typically too much data and large number of volatile functions. We can talk how …

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AI: No more dumb systems!

Almost everybody in professional setting has come to a brick wall caused by a computer system. Either it is a problem with a cumbersome data entry or a difficulty to …

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A little bit of Excel Automation

Excel applications are the good, the bad and the ugly of trading or logistics process. Spreadsheets are great as a simple database with couple of formulas to act as …

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Happy New Year 2021 !

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