Best Practices

As deployment options for web apps have multiplied in the past few years, AWS Lambda continues to stand out as a powerful, simple way to run a web app with minimal maintenance and cost — if there is low traffic.

LoudSwarm by Six Feet Up, a Django-based virtual event platform, has always supported Slack for instant, in-app text communication. In addition to Slack, clients were requesting Discord integration, so Six Feet Up’s expert team of developers found a solution.

Anyone using Terraform to increase repeatability/reliability of an infrastructure has experienced the need — and urgency — to deploy resources that are entirely new.

Migrating from Django 1.7 to 3.1 is no small task. Besides having to deal with the upgrade of Django itself, you shouldn't forget that an upgrade like this implies an upgrade from Python 2 to 3 as well.

dnsmasq is an amazing tool that solves one big headache for developers: developing locally with wildcard DNS...

Don't wait until it's too late to make important maintenance updates. We've compiled our top tips for 12 months of peace of mind...

During episode 183 of Python Bytes, I mentioned that I keep all unencrypted secrets off of my filesystem and use tools like 1Password's CLI tool, op, to put them into my environment when needed. Here are some examples of how that works.

In the age of virtual events, it's important to make your event as engaging and inclusive as you can. So how do you do it right?

Plone’s Users and Groups admin panel gives you an easy interface to manage your site users, control access to content across the entire site or down to a single page, and customize the user experience...