Rick Copeland

https://twitter.com/rick446

Atlanta, Georgia

Python programmer, author, speaker

Areas of Expertise:

  • Python programming
  • web development
  • MongoDB
  • SQLAlchemy
  • consulting
  • speaking
  • programming
  • training
  • writing

Rick Copeland is the co-founder and CTO of Synapp.io, a startup providing a software platform to help business invest their digital marketing efforts (particularly email) more effectively. Rick has been using MongoDB since 2009 and Python since 2005, and has spoken at various user groups and conferences on both topics. He is a member of the Python Software Foundation and the Masters of MongoDB.

Previously, Rick was a software engineer with SourceForge, where he helped reinvent and open-source the SourceForge platform as the Allura project.

MongoDB Applied Design Patterns MongoDB Applied Design Patterns
by Rick Copeland
March 2013
Print: $24.99
Ebook: $19.99

Essential SQLAlchemy Essential SQLAlchemy
by Rick Copeland
June 2008
Print: $34.99
Ebook: $27.99

Rick blogs at:

MongoDB Pub/Sub with Capped Collections

April 05 2013

If you've been following this blog for any length of time, you know that my NoSQL database of choice is MongoDB. One thing that MongoDB isn't known for, however, is building a publish / subscribe system. Redis, on the other hand, is known for having a high-bandwith, low-latency pub/sub protocol. One thing I've always… read more
Rick Copeland