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SaltStack (Salt) is currently one of the fastest growing configuration management systems. It's written in Python and uses ZeroMQ to communicate nearly instantaneously with all of the servers in your infrastructure that it calls minions. Here is how we use Salt and why.

Calvin Hendryx-Parker (Six Feet Up's CTO, an AWS Hero, and a Python/open-source advocate) believes to fully unlock the potential of AI, your company should embrace the growing influence of open source software and communities; foster a culture of integrity, diversity and learning; and increase scalability to reduce costs.

Amazon’s re:Invent conference was impressive this year again with a whole slew of future-oriented talks and over 40,000 expected attendees. Here’s a re:cap of the most notable re:Invent 2018 announcements...

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If your organization has multiple websites, multiple teams, and/or multiple CMS technologies, you need to integrate those sites to easily manage and syndicate content across them.

Looking at PHP, Python, Django, Bottle, Flask, and CherryPy, why do we pick the Pyramid framework?

We're happy to see that Python is now one of the fastest-growing programing languages, even rivaling PHP to become the most popular interpreted language. Today I explore the reasons why we believe Python is the language of choice for serious developers.