Secrets of Building Python Container Images for AWS Lambda
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Lambda is a handy and scalable tool used to run code on demand. Today, developers can use container images for Lambda code — a helpful way to run much more complex code in a familiar package. However, there are some non-obvious differences from normal containers which can make building Python app images for AWS Lambda somewhat 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
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
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
Get your JSON Configuration In Line with GenSON
Using JSONSchema and Python GenSON to standardize thousands of JSON files
Glenn Franxman |
January 29, 2021
4 Reasons to go with Python over ${language}
It can be hard to know which programming language is "the right tool for the job", but there's one language that keeps coming to mind...
Calvin Hendryx-Parker |
October 28, 2020
Electron, Desktop Development at the Speed of Electricity
If you have used Electron before, your initial experiences may have been less than ideal. It might be time to give it a second (or first, or third) look!
Shane Hathaway |
August 24, 2020
10 Tips for Upgrading to Python 3
Upgrading legacy systems to Python 3 doesn't have to be a hassle. Here are 10 tips and tricks to help with your upgrade project...
Kim Nguyen |
December 19, 2019
Why You Should Upgrade to Python 3
Python 2's End of Life is January 1, 2020. At Six Feet Up, we're prepared a critical list of reasons why you need to upgrade to Python 3...
Chrissy Wainwright |
December 19, 2019
What is Faceted Search or Faceted Navigation?
Faceted search provides site visitors with a quick and intuitive way to narrow down their search results in real time...
Calvin Hendryx-Parker |
July 24, 2019
How to start with Machine Learning
Machine Learning initiatives can be powerful when you need to analyze large amounts of data, especially when it makes sense to analyze data points together to gain greater insights or find patterns...
Calvin Hendryx-Parker |
June 3, 2019
How to write an RFP for your Web Portal project
Whether your web portal project is about a corporate intranet, an online collaboration platform for researchers or a app designed to help members manage their data, you will most likely need to write an RFP to identify possible suitable vendors...
Gabrielle Hendryx-Parker |
May 17, 2019
Kick Start your Django/Plone Buildout with PyCharm
PyCharm has great features, such as a Debugger, code completion, syntax highlighting and code formatting for Buildout configuration files. Here are several tips to help you get going...
Calvin Hendryx-Parker |
August 5, 2017
High Availability and Horizontal Scaling with Celery
Long running tasks can be put on a Celery job queue to help decouple and run asynchronous work loads, and therefore strengthen the main program...
Calvin Hendryx-Parker |
February 1, 2017
Write Better Programs with pytest
Getting a set of fast running tests can dramatically speed up the development process as well as ensure developers don't introduce regressions...
Calvin Hendryx-Parker |
September 26, 2016
A More Flexible and Intuitive Python-Based LDAP Library
A new, pure Python LDAP library is out and easier to work with…
Rob McBroom |
August 30, 2016
Managing complex Bacula configurations with YAML, Jinja and Python
How to make sure all servers are backed up, and do so in a way to avoid a performance hit…
Calvin Hendryx-Parker |
August 12, 2016
My Take-Aways From PyCon 2016
Useful tidbits of information collected at the annual Python conference in Portland, OR...
Calvin Hendryx-Parker |
June 17, 2016
Building Python Command Line Tools, Part 4: CSV Importing and Time Zones
In the final part of our series on Python Command Line Tools, we'll put our application to work. I'll show you how to import the CSV module and handle timezones post import.
Calvin Hendryx-Parker |
March 13, 2015
Building Python Command Line Tools, Part 3: Bootstrapping Pyramid
For the third part of our series on Python Command Line Tools, I'll show you how to use your console_script to bootstrap a Pyramid App.
Calvin Hendryx-Parker |
March 2, 2015
Building Python Command Line Tools, Part 2: Console Scripts
In this second part of our series on Python Command Line Tools, I'll show you how to make the agrparse script executable and ready to be installed as a console script when someone installs your Pyramid or Django app.
Calvin Hendryx-Parker |
February 9, 2015
Building Python Command Line Tools, Part 1: ArgParse
This article is part one of a four-part series on building and using python command line tools. Get ready to learn how to parse command line arguments and import csv files for a Django or Pyramid app.
Calvin Hendryx-Parker |
January 26, 2015
An Introduction to BeautifulSoup
This article will help you save effort processing HTML content using BeautifulSoup.
Rob McBroom |
December 19, 2014
Debugging Python code with pdb
This post offers an introduction to the interactive Python Debugger tool (pdb), including basic commands, examples, alternative implementations, and helpful links.
Clayton Parker |
December 9, 2014
Performance Testing with Locust
During a recent load-test, we successfully used the Python plugin Locust to create a working test as an alternative to Jmeter.
Rob McBroom |
November 17, 2014
SaltStack for server configuration management and more
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 |
October 21, 2014
Python Django Training Course Now Available
We’ve taken the challenge of finding well-trained Python developers into our own hands. Clayton and I will be teaching 5-day immersive trainings on Python and Django at Eleven Fifty in Carmel, Indiana.
Calvin Hendryx-Parker |
October 8, 2014