James Santucci, Author at Azavea

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Notifications over Websockets with Http4s and Skunk

By James Santucci on May 20th, 2020

In an attempt to avoid relying on polling in a front-end application or third-party services, we attempt servicing asynchronous notifications over websockets using only PostgreSQL and Scala.

Company

This Month We Learned — March 2020

By James Santucci, Matt McFarland and Aaron Su on April 22nd, 2020

This month we learned about multi-stage builds with Docker, PostgreSQL triggers, and variance analysis.

Company

This Month We Learned – January 2020

By Andrew Fink-Miller, Hector Castro, James Santucci and Chris Brown on February 19th, 2020

This Month We Learned a React-ish strategy for designing UIs in IOS, new ways for thinking about stories of success and failure, and that making ReasonML and existing React libraries play nicely together can be hard.

Software Engineering

STAC: Creating an Ecosystem of SpatioTemporal Assets

By Niki LaGrone, James Santucci and Aaron Su on October 1st, 2019

STAC is creating an ecosystem of interoperable spatiotemporal assets. Learn how Azavea has contibuted and about future steps for the specification.

Software Engineering

Lessons in Functional API Development from Haskell’s Servant and Http4s

By James Santucci on May 20th, 2019

As a 10% time project, we replicated a small piece of the Raster Foundry backend code in Haskell, using servant for the REST interface and postgresql-simple for database interaction.

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Software Engineering

Aster Vision – A New Open Source Framework for Deep Learning on Astrospatial Imagery and Space Exploration

By James Santucci on April 1st, 2019

Aster Vision is an open source machine learning library for analyzing huge troves of astrospatial data and finding habitable planets around nearby stars.