Four different approaches to design a multi-language Elasticsearch index — When I was designing Elasticsearch index for NewsCatcherAPI, one of the biggest problems I had was handling multi-language news articles. I knew that Elasticsearch has pre-build analyzers for the most popular languages. The question was “How do I manage to have documents with different languages that I can search all…

Why a developer should invest her time to write a clear README for their public repositories — In this article, I would like to share with you my little observations on how many junior developers failed to convince me to hire them by not putting a README to their repositories. Useful links on how to craft a stunning README at the end of the article. What is README? Usually, README…

From 0 to 350 sign-ups within 2 months — UPD: The Python package I talk about in this article does not depend on any external API. You do not need to be our client to use it! About two months ago, I saw a problem coming. My side-project newscatcherapi.com was soon to be ready to launch for a closed…

Guide on how to release and sell your code without managing a website, servers, users, and payments. With 0$ up-front cost. — In this post, I will go through my experience of developing, deploying and selling my API via an API marketplace. I did not have to set up a website or think about how to integrate payment processing solutions. I just wrote my code and deployed it. Building a startup requires…

Team of two planned and shipped a beta for 200 users in less than 2 months without quitting their full-time jobs. — Within 60 days we: iterated our architecture design 3 times released Python package which got us 800+ stars on GitHub received 200+ sign-ups for the beta delivered our Minimum Viable Product Official website of the product that I will talk about in this article. In this article: Part I. Product

Newscatcher python package allows you to automatically collect the latest news data from over 3,000 major online news websites. — As I am writing this article, many people have to work from home, some have a lot of free time during this period. You can use this time to build your portfolio, enhance your skills or begin a side-project. Newscatcher package makes it easy to collect and normalize news articles…

We analyzed all online media articles from March 1, 2020, to March 7, 2020, that mention US 2020 candidates to check who got the most of the attention from media — At Politwire, we monitor and analyze the media coverage of politicians. We help political campaigns, businesses and media houses to understand politicians’ media paths. Democratic Super Tuesday On March 3, 2020, fourteen US states held primaries. About one-third of all delegates were involved. …

Or how to understand what official documentation is missing — If I had to describe Elasticsearch in one phrase I would say something like: When search meets analytics at scale (in near real time) Elasticsearch is in the top 10 most popular open-source technologies at the moment. …

Or how to stop being dependent on data providers — In one of my previous posts I was talking about how you could scrape and analyze news articles with just 5 lines of code: Scrape and Summarize News Articles in 5 Lines of Python Code Good programers write the code, great search github first.towardsdatascience.com This time I will show you how you could set up a pipe to automatically collect all the new articles that have been published by almost…