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How To Mock Services Using Mountebank and Node.js — step-by-step Javascript tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Mock Services Using Mountebank and Node.js

A service mock is code that simulates a service that is not yet available in order to test an application. In this guide, you will build two flexible service-mocking applications using Node.js and Mountebank. After this tutorial, you’ll be able to mock all kinds of service behavior so you can more easily develop and test your applications.

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How To Create Django Models — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Create Django Models

In this tutorial, we will create the Django models that define the fields and behaviors of the Blog application data that we will be storing. These models map the data from your Django application to the database. It’s what Django uses to generate the database tables via their object relational mapping (ORM) API called “models.”

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How To Use Web APIs in Python 3 — step-by-step Python tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Use Web APIs in Python 3

An API, or Application Program Interface, makes it easy for developers to integrate one app with another. They expose some of a program’s inner workings in a limited way. You can use APIs to get information from other programs, or to automate things you normally do in your…

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How To Make a URL Shortener with Flask and SQLite — step-by-step Databases tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Make a URL Shortener with Flask and SQLite

In this tutorial, you will build a URL shortener, which is a service that takes any URL and generates a shorter, more readable version like bit.ly. You will use Flask, SQLite, and the Hashids library to build your URL shortener. Your application will allow users to enter a URL and generate a shorter version, in addition to a statistics page where users can view the number of times a URL has been clicked. You’ll use the Bootstrap toolkit to sty

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How To Deploy a Go Web Application Using Nginx on Ubuntu 18.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Deploy a Go Web Application Using Nginx on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial, you will build a “Hello World” web application in Go and deploy it on an Ubuntu 18.04 server using Nginx as a reverse proxy. Go is a general-purpose programming language that is gradually becoming one of the most popular web back-end programming languages. Nginx is one of the most used web servers in the world due to its lightweight resource usage and its reliability under load.

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Bias-Variance for Deep Reinforcement Learning: How To Build a Bot for Atari with OpenAI Gym — AI And Machine Learning tutorial on Progressive Robot

Bias-Variance for Deep Reinforcement Learning: How To Build a Bot for Atari with OpenAI Gym

Reinforcement learning is a subfield within control theory, which concerns controlling systems that change over time and broadly includes applications such as self-driving cars, robotics, and bots for games. Throughout this guide, you will use reinforcement learning to build a bot for Atari video games. By following this tutorial, you will have gained an understanding of the fundamental concepts that govern one’s choice of model complexity in machine learning.

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