Driving AI Forward: A Game Plan for Tech Leaders
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 and reduce costs.
Calvin Hendryx-Parker |
August 28, 2023
How to Break Free from Excel
Is your company still using Excel? Transitioning from Excel spreadsheets to web-based applications can improve efficiency, scalability, and overall user experience for your business. Translating requirements from Excel into a web application is not a trivial task. Explore the benefits, best practices and potential challenges of making the switch.
Thomas Massmann |
August 16, 2023
The Care and Feeding of Frontend Design Systems
Some thoughts on the minimum elements needed for a successful frontend design system to thrive in any organization.
Anthony Bosio |
March 27, 2023
Help! I'm falling in love with Kubernetes!
Learn how Kubernetes can improve the developer experience.
Roché Compaan |
March 12, 2023
Building an Azure DevOps Pipeline for Django
Learn how to create a CI pipeline for a Python/Django-based web application using Azure DevOps.
Markos Gogoulos |
February 21, 2023
Doing the Homework on REST vs. GraphQL
Which tool is better for your project: REST or GraphQL? Learn about the pros and cons of these technologies, and why we believe GraphQL is an alternative to REST, not a replacement or a successor.
Robert Kuzma |
February 7, 2023
Addressing common Kubernetes concerns
In this post we address concerns of whether to adopt Kubernetes or not, and we provide a path for managers and engineers to consider adoption of Kubernetes as an environment to deploy their applications.
Markos Gogoulos |
January 18, 2023
Handling Errors with Error Boundaries in React
Error boundaries were introduced in React 16 as a way to catch JavaScript errors in your React components. Let's look at how you can implement them in your tracking tool.
Sedat Basar |
December 21, 2022
Matching Django and React using Redux
During a recent project, we paired a Django backend with a React frontend using Redux. There was some trial and error involved, but the end result is a very cohesive structure.
Umar Maqbool |
December 19, 2022
End-to-end Testing with Python and Playwright
Playwright is an open source testing platform that enables reliable end-to-end (E2E) testing. Let's look at how we can use Python and Playwright to automate end-to-end testing.
Markos Gogoulos |
December 15, 2022
Too Big for DAG Factories?
As your infrastructure scales up, how you go about managing all DAGs in Airflow becomes very important. One method would be to create a “DAG factory,” which can churn out thousands of DAGs dynamically from a single configuration file.
Glenn Franxman |
December 8, 2022
Tips for Running Smoothly with Airflow
Airflow is great in many ways and has a lot of great features. In practice, though, there are some snags that anyone new to Airflow should watch out for. The following is a list of “gotchas” and suggestions we’ve learned during a recent project.
Dave O'Connor |
December 2, 2022
Harnessing Tech to Build a Better World for All
At Six Feet Up, giving back has always been a core part of our IMPACTFUL mission, and when we learned about Pledge 1%, we were immediately compelled to take the pledge.
Darcy Lee |
November 18, 2022
Tips for Integrating Okta with a Django App
Interested in integrating Okta with your Django applications? While not terribly difficult, there are several holes in the documentation. Knowing these simple tips can save you time.
Umer Sohail |
November 3, 2022
DB Migration: 2 AWS Services Compared
An analysis of two approaches to partial database migration: Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) in combination with dblink; or AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS).
Robert Kuzma |
October 26, 2022
Avoid CAPTCHAs: Use Honeypot Fields in Plone sites
Filling out forms while trying to pass the CAPTCHA can be difficult and frustrating for users. The honeypot field is an alternative solution that is practically undetectable to the user while effectively deterring bot submissions. Let’s walk through how to use these in your Plone website.
Annette B. Lewis |
October 18, 2022
A Look at Using Wagtail Snippets with Django
Wagtail 4.0 came out on Aug. 31 and with it came support for Django 4.1, which we just so happen to be using for our first Wagtail project — a new application that will be integrated within one of the client’s existing websites.
Chrissy Wainwright |
September 7, 2022
Top Features in the Airflow 2.3 Release
Apache recently released Airflow 2.3.0. Since its last update, Apache Airflow 2.2.0, this new release has over 700 commits, including 50 new features, 99 improvements, 85 bug fixes and several doc changes. Here is a glimpse of the major updates.
Waqar Ahmed |
July 27, 2022
Manage Your Secrets to Keep Your Code Secure
As cybersecurity continues to be an ever-growing concern, we look at how removing the secrets from your source code and using a source code manager can help keep your code secure.
Noel Llevares |
June 15, 2022
5 Ways to Manage Environment Variables with direnv
If you find yourself frequently managing environment variables, especially project-specific variables, direnv can be a huge time saver. While the installation process is well documented, this article goes over some potential use cases.
Rob McBroom |
May 17, 2022
Beyond Motorcycles: How Sidecars Boost Dev Speed
The complexity of modern software systems has been written about and discussed with vigor. The complexity of a multi-container microservice architecture often overshadows the resources required to develop one. However, the development sidecar can be an effective solution.
Roché Compaan |
May 10, 2022
Use 1Password to Manage Secrets and Environments
A look at how some improvements brought to the most recent versions of 1Password can help you more easily manage your secrets and environments.
Rob McBroom |
May 4, 2022
IndyPy: 15 Years of Celebrating Python
As the 15-year celebration of IndyPy nears, I look back at the road that has led to this point and some of the things I am hopeful for as IndyPy continues to move ahead.
Calvin Hendryx-Parker |
April 28, 2022
Lambda vs. Fargate: The Cost of Running 24/7
A quick comparison of AWS Lambda and Fargate to see which option is the more affordable for running regularly occurring, long-running processes.
Caleb Gosnell |
April 27, 2022
Step-by-step: Using Docker to Set Up Plone 6
In this step-by-step guide, you’ll learn how to deploy Plone 6 using the official Docker images maintained by the Plone release team. You can choose between either Plone 6’s Classic front-end (the mature server-side rendered interface) or its new, modern, blazing fast Volto front-end.
Kim Nguyen |
April 21, 2022
Library We Love: Django Knox Tokens
Explore Django REST Framework as a solution for developing front-end heavy websites, and learn how Django REST Knox offers the simplest solution for what can easily become a very complex issue.
Glenn Franxman |
April 18, 2022
To pyenv or Not To pyenv, That is The Question
Learn the benefits and steps for installing pyenv without letting it take over your shell's environment.
Rob McBroom |
April 11, 2022
How to Set Up a Plone Site with pip install
Plonistas have been dreaming of pip install plone for getting a new Plone project up and running for more than a decade. Learn how to get the alpha version of Plone 6 running using the pip install method.
Chrissy Wainwright |
April 5, 2022
Connect GitHub Actions and AWS using OIDC
With OpenID Connect (OIDC) Identity Provider for GitHub Actions, GitHub Actions simply and conveniently interacts with AWS. In this post, you’ll see an example Terraform configuration for setting up the authentication and an Actions workflow that uses it.
Caleb Gosnell |
March 30, 2022
Upgrading Django: Tips You Don’t Get From Docs
Keeping Django up to date is essential. Here are some battle-scarred tips and version-specific information for you to navigate a Django upgrade at any level.
Peter Hull |
March 21, 2022