Coiled deploys Dask clusters in the cloud. We do this using raw cloud APIs rather than with Kubernetes...

The cloud is wonderful but expensive. Spot/preemptible instances offer dramatic cost savings, but using them well requires considerable nuance... 

This blog explains how to perform a spatial join in Python. Knowing how to perform a spatial join is an important asset in your data-processing toolkit: it enables you to join two datasets based on spatial predicates. For example, you can join a point-based dataset with a polygon-based dataset based on whether the points fall within the polygon.