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While Flask is helpful for getting started, Django is a "batteries included" approach to web development.

In Getting Started with Custom Blocks in Volto, we walked through the basic structure setup for a custom block and registered it with Plone’s React-based frontend, Volto. Now, we'll review the simple Edit Component.

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.

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.

Volto also offers in-place editing, a drag-and-drop layout configuration and a toolbar that dynamically changes to show only the actions needed in the moment.

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.

Volto is the React-based frontend for Plone and will be the default frontend from Plone 6 forward. It’s highly customizable and allows content editors to assemble pages using Blocks.

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.

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.