Integrating GenAI into Your Tech Stack: 4 Essentials
Is your business prepared for an 80% adoption rate of AI by 2026? As you build a flexible, multi-layered framework for leveraging AI, keep these 4 essentials — including data management, ROI tracking, model selection, and ethical policy implementation — in mind.
Glenn Franxman |
October 26, 2023
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 to reduce costs.
Calvin Hendryx-Parker |
September 13, 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Safety and pip-audit: Comparing Security Tools
Learn about Safety and other tools you can use to secure your Python software supply chain.
Kalim Gazi |
February 25, 2022
How to Set Up Python on Your New Mac
Learn the steps needed to install Python and start working with virtualenv projects on your new Mac.
Chrissy Wainwright |
February 1, 2022
Secrets of Building Python Container Images for AWS Lambda
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.
Peter Hull |
August 12, 2021
The Zen of Python: Bootstrapping Your Local Python Environment
Established, senior developers might be able to install Python easily, but are they following the Zen of Python when it comes to best practices for environment settings and versioning? In his talk, “Bootstrapping your Local Python Environment,” Calvin discusses how to optimize system setups.
Calvin Hendryx-Parker |
July 22, 2021
Improve and Automate Plone Caching with collective.cloudfront
collective.cloudfront is a Plone add-on designed to watch for Purge notifications from plone.app.caching and send the corresponding invalidation requests to an instance of Amazon’s CloudFront.
Rob McBroom |
June 24, 2021
An Official Cloud Migration Cookbook
Whether you are responsible for a single application, a large environment or somewhere in between, it’s likely you’ve wanted to know how to maximize your cloud service providers’ capabilities. Explore templates, critical considerations and techniques to successfully tackle a cloud migration.
Caleb Gosnell |
May 21, 2021
Using Plone’s .zexp Export/Import for Debugging
It’s best practice to debug or develop against the same content that is in production, but what should you do if there’s a limited amount of space to work with and the full production data can’t be pulled down? You can use Zope’s export/import.
Chrissy Wainwright |
May 13, 2021
Serverless Django: Exploring the State of the Art on AWS
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.
Shane Hathaway |
April 12, 2021
Hacking Django Channels for Fun (and Profit)
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.
Peter Hull |
March 18, 2021
Terraforming Parts Unknown: Strategies for Expanding Your Terraform Repertoire
Anyone using Terraform to increase repeatability/reliability of an infrastructure has experienced the need — and urgency — to deploy resources that are entirely new.
Caleb Gosnell |
March 12, 2021
How to Leapfrog a Massive Django/Python Upgrade Successfully
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.
Roché Compaan |
February 17, 2021