Over the years there’s been an explosion in infrastructure platforms and application frameworks that form the foundation of “cloud native.” Modern infrastructure platforms range from container orchestrators such as Kubernetes to serverless platforms aimed at rapid application development. In parallel, shell scripts that administrators used to deploy, configure, and manage these platforms evolved into what is now called Infrastructure as Code (IaC), which formalizes the use of higher level programming languages such as Python or Ruby or purpose-built languages such as HashiCorp’s HCL (through Terraform).

A demo app for a property advisor application using match feature:

Data-mining in python to automate real estate deal screening.

In this post, I'll present the quickest way to get up and running fast, doing analysis on real estate data using Python. We'll make a request to the OpenHouse API, retrieve some data, and then do a quick analysis. You won't need any prior experience beyond basic Python to follow this walkthrough.