Best Practices

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.

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.

A look at how some improvements brought to the most recent versions of 1Password can help you more easily manage your secrets and environments.

A quick comparison of AWS Lambda and Fargate to see which option is the more affordable for running regularly occurring, long-running processes.

Learn the benefits and steps for installing pyenv without letting it take over your shell's environment.

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.

Learn about Safety and other tools you can use to secure your Python software supply chain.

Learn the steps needed to install Python and start working with virtualenv projects on your new Mac.

Today, developers can use container images for AWS Lambda code — a helpful way to run much more complex code in a familiar package. However, there are some non-obvious differences that can make building Python app images for AWS Lambda frustrating.