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Let's build a web scraper - Part 2 - Defining the data model

My main concern is to collect as many data as possible and later filter it out strictly. Keep in mind, that data can come from various sources in various forms, so the data model should be flexible enough to handle them all.

Let's build a web scraper - Part 1 - Defining the scope

In this blog series I want to create a a web scraper that gathers job listing informations from real sites around my location, Eastern Europe.

Rest API with CodeIgniter

By default CodeIgniter comes with a MVC based approach of serving data. However it is not hard to turn a starter project into a RESTful one.

Hot container replacement with Docker

Docker makes deployment and installation ease. However, when it comes to test small changes, it can be cumbersome to rebuild and rerun the containers manually. Here can help us the hot container replacement.

Docker develop rebuild action example

Practical example of Docker's hot container replacement feature with the rebuild action.

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