Gigi Sayfan - Envato Tuts+ Profile

Gigi Sayfan

Principal Software Architect at Helix

Gigi Sayfan is a principal software architect at Helix — a bioinformatics and genomics start-up. Gigi has been developing software professionally for more than 20 years in domains as diverse as instant messaging, morphing, chip fabrication process control, embedded multimedia applications for game consoles, brain-inspired machine learning, custom browser development, web services for 3D distributed game platforms, IoT sensors and virtual reality. He has written production code in many programming languages such as Go, Python, C, C++, C#, Java, Delphi, JavaScript, and even Cobol and PowerBuilder for operating systems such as Windows (3.11 through 7), Linux, Mac OSX, Lynx (embedded), and Sony PlayStation. His technical expertise includes databases, low-level networking, distributed systems, unorthodox user interfaces, and the general software development lifecycle.

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Tutorials

Modern Web Scraping With BeautifulSoup and Selenium
In this tutorial, you'll learn how the content you see in the browser actually gets rendered and how to go about scraping it when necessary. In particular...
Gigi Sayfan
26 Jan 2023
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Docker From the Ground Up: Building Images
Building Docker images is arguably the most critical part of a successful container-based deployment strategy. In this tutorial, you'll learn the commands...
Gigi Sayfan
22 Nov 2022
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How to Implement Your Own Data Structure in Python
Data structures and algorithms are the core of computer science. Every programming language comes with standard data structures, but sometimes you need to...
Gigi Sayfan
18 Nov 2022
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Professional Error Handling With Python
Python provides many facilities for error handling. In this tutorial I'll discuss the practical considerations you should take into account when designing...
Gigi Sayfan
18 Oct 2022
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Write Professional Unit Tests in Python
Unit testing is a software development best practice. In this tutorial, you'll learn what unit tests are, what level of testing is needed, and how to use...
Gigi Sayfan
26 Sep 2022
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How to Write, Package, and Distribute a Library in Python
Python prides itself on its "batteries-included" motto, but eventually you'll write some special code that you want to share with the world. In this tutorial...
Gigi Sayfan
26 Sep 2022
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Serialization and Deserialization of Python Objects: Part 1
Serialization and deserialization is happening whenever you save your program's state to a file or send some data over the network. Understanding the...
Gigi Sayfan
26 May 2022
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Understand How Much Memory Your Python Objects Use
Python's memory management can be very surprising. In this tutorial you'll learn how to keep track and understand the actual memory footprint of your...
Gigi Sayfan
20 May 2022
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Fetching Data in Your React Application
In this tutorial you'll learn about one of the most basic elements of any web application—how to fetch data to display. This is not trivial. There are...
Gigi Sayfan
6 Jun 2018
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REST vs. gRPC: Battle of the APIs
The REST API has been a pillar of web programming for a long time. But recently gRPC has started encroaching on its territory. It turns out there are some...
Gigi Sayfan
8 May 2018
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Regular Expressions With Go: Part 2
In part two of this series on regexes with Go, we will focus on using the regexp library to its full extent, including compiling regular expressions, finding...
Gigi Sayfan
30 Apr 2018
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Regular Expressions With Go: Part 1
In this two-part series, you'll learn what regular expressions are and how to use regular expressions effectively in Go to accomplish many common tasks.
Gigi Sayfan
27 Apr 2018
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