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Calvin Hendryx-Parker, Six Feet Up CTO and AWS Community Hero, shared highlights from NGINX’s Sprint 2.0 in an article for Gestalt IT, “F5 Doubles Down on NGINX Community with Sprint 2.0.”

Episode 10 of The Plone Podcast, monthly conversations about Plonistas for Plonistas, features one of Plone’s co-founders, Alan Runyan, who is also President of Enfold Systems, the premier provider of Plone-based solutions.

The September 2021 edition of IndyPy featured an engaging presentation on “Practical Python Async in 42 Lines of Code" by Calvin Hendryx-Parker.

In a recent episode of the Gestalt IT On-Premise IT Roundtable Podcast, “Battling Datacenter Dragons: Recovering Tribal Knowledge and Enterprise Applications Delivery with BlueCat,” Calvin Hendryx-Parker to discuss why robots won’t replace IT practitioners.

Calvin Hendryx-Parker, Six Feet Up’s CTO and AWS Community Hero, presented a 10-minute Thunder Talk on “Hacking Django Channels for Fun (and Profit)” at PyOhio — a non-profit annual Python community conference.

Episode 9 of The Plone Podcast, monthly conversations about Plonistas for Plonistas, features guest Matthew Wilkes.

The August 2021 edition of IndyAWS featured an in-depth review on “Load Testing AWS Serverless Architectures with Serverless.”

The August 2021 edition of IndyPy featured a live demo about “Deploying a Machine Learning (ML) model using Serverless.”

Calvin Hendryx-Parker discusses how — with enough data (we’re talking a lot of data!) — companies of all sizes, across all sectors can benefit from artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in his Datanami article, “AI and ML for the Masses.”

For the first time in more than 18 months, Sixies from around the nation gathered, in-person, for Six Feet Up’s semi-annual retreat. The July 2021 retreat, hosted in Twin Lakes, Wisconsin, featured home-cooked meals, fire pit conversations, relaxing boat rides and several days of Sixies coming together to work on the business, as opposed to in the business.

Episode 8 of The Plone Podcast, monthly conversations about Plonistas for Plonistas, features guest Annette Lewis.

Six Feet Up is proud to announce that Carol Ganz, Vice President of Sales, has been re-elected as the Women & Hi Tech Membership Administrator for a second two-year term.

In a recent episode of the Gestalt IT On-Premise IT Roundtable Podcast, “High Availability Is the Worst Reason to Go Multi-Cloud,” Calvin Hendryx-Parker and Ather Beg joined moderator Tom Hollingsworth to discuss the benefits and downfalls of multi-cloud.

The July 2021 edition of IndyAWS joined forces with Boston AWS to host an in-depth discussion about an AWS DeepRacer — and how the custom DeepBlaster was created in just four short weeks.

IndyPy hosted a joint livestream event with the Chicago Python (ChiPy) User Group for their July 2021 Meetup.

Calvin Hendryx-Parker, Six Feet Up’s CTO and AWS Community Hero, shares his perspective on the growth of containerization and Kubernetes for orchestrating workloads in a recent Gestalt IT blog, “Portworx Latest Release Delivering on the Enterprise’s Thirst for Kubernetes.”

Sixty video recordings from Six Feet Up’s 3rd annual 2021 Python Web Conference, the most in-depth Python conference for web developers, are now available via the #PWC2021 YouTube playlist.

The June 2021 edition of IndyAWS hosted a live-coding presentation and discussion on AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) for automating tasks and repeatable components.

This month’s IndyPy featured an engaging tale of Cris Ewing's journey to identify and debug an issue with pytest using Django.

The Six Feet Up team had a blast at this year’s DjangoCon Europe, hosted virtually on LoudSwarm by Six Feet Up from June 2-4, 2021.

Calvin Hendryx-Parker, Six Feet Up CTO and AWS Community Hero, discusses Python’s unique market share in a Datanami article, “Three Reasons Python Is The AI Lingua Franca.”

Six Feet Up co-founders, CEO Gabrielle Hendryx-Parker and CTO Calvin Hendryx-Parker, hosted the 19th hole social at their Fishers, IN residence following the SIM Indy (Society for Information Management, Indianapolis Chapter) inaugural golf outing.

Six Feet Up CEO and co-founder, Gabrielle Hendryx-Parker, was featured in a TechRepublic article, where she discusses how managers can support the mental, emotional and physical well-being of software developers.

Episode 7 of The Plone Podcast, monthly conversations about Plonistas for Plonistas, features guest Paul Roeland.

Six Feet Up CEO and co-founder, Gabrielle Hendryx-Parker, discusses the importance of evaluating a development team’s skills and knowing when it’s time to ask for expert help in a recent VMBlog.com article.

Six Feet Up CTO and AWS Community Hero, Calvin Hendryx-Parker, shared his perspective about tech talent beyond Silicon Valley and discussed Six Feet Up’s approach to hiring expert developers at Powderkeg Unvalley 2021.

The May 2021 edition of IndyAWS hosted an engaging presentation and discussion on Amazon EC2 Spot Instances and their use cases.

Six Feet Up Senior Python and Plone Developer, Annette Lewis, joined Episode #232 of the Python Bytes Podcast with hosts Michael Kennedy and Brian Okken.

Six Feet Up CTO and AWS Community Hero, Calvin Hendryx-Parker, was featured in a DevPro Journal article, “The Django Framework Explained.”

Calvin Hendryx-Parker was invited to participate in a special Tech Field Day event announcing the launch of ARTESCA, a new cloud-native object storage platform, with enterprise IT companies Scality and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE).

In recognition of Global Accessibility Awareness Day on May 20th, this month’s IndyPy — Indiana’s largest Python meetup founded in 2007 by Six Feet Up CTO and AWS Community Hero Calvin Hendryx-Parker — featured a lively discussion about the importance of making the web accessible to everyone.

Calvin Hendryx-Parker, Six Feet Up’s CTO and AWS Community Hero, shares why Python — with its “batteries-included” standard library — is one of the best languages for both beginner and advanced developers in the May 2021 issue of App Developer Magazine.

This special edition episode of The Plone Podcast, monthly conversations about Plonistas for Plonistas, features four guest panelists: Chrissy Wainwright, Érico Andrei, Timo Stollenwerk and Philip Bauer.

Six Feet Up CTO and AWS Community Hero, Calvin Hendryx-Parker, was featured in a Computer Weekly article, “Python @ 30: Praising the versatility of Python.”

Episode 6 of The Plone Podcast, monthly conversations about Plonistas for Plonistas, features guest Franco Pellegrini.

Open edX 2021, a half-day virtual conference on May 27, will be hosted via the virtual event platform, LoudSwarm by Six Feet Up. The conference will bring Open edX practitioners together to share ideas about online learning techniques.

Six Feet Up is proud to announce that Carol Ganz, Vice President of Sales, and Jen Myers, Vice President of Finance, have been elected to the Django Events Foundation North America (DEFNA) 2021 board as a Director and Treasurer, respectively.

Calvin Hendryx-Parker, Six Feet Up’s CTO and AWS Community Hero, was selected as a Field Day Delegate and invited to participate in Cloud Field Day 10 — a multi-day discussion with leaders and product managers from enterprise IT companies including NetApp, Dell Technologies, VMware, Oracle, Scality, Veeam, Intel, Komprise and StorageOS.

Calvin Hendryx-Parker, Six Feet Up’s CTO and AWS Community Hero, joined the Gestalt IT Rundown with Stephen Foskett to discuss tech headlines including Intel’s newest next-generation server platform, Ice Lake.

Six Feet Up’s CEO and co-founder, Gabrielle Hendryx-Parker, discussed the opportunities and challenges developers face when working from home (WFH) in two TechRepublic articles by senior writer, Veronica Combs.

More than 300 people from 41 countries and 21 time zones attended the 3rd annual Python Web Conference, the most in-depth Python conference for web developers.

Learning the power of Plone, a free, Python-based, open source content management system (CMS), was a highlight for Pythonistas at the 3rd annual Python Web Conference.

There are many options to consider when deploying a Python application. On Episode 51 of The Real Python Podcast, Calvin Hendryx-Parker shares tips for choosing the right technology stack, finding the right tools for clients and hosting personal portfolio projects.

Episode 5 of the Plone Podcast features guest Chrissy Wainwright. In her professional life, Chrissy Wainwright is a Senior Python Developer at Six Feet Up.

Calvin Hendryx-Parker, Six Feet Up’s CTO and AWS Community Hero, and Michael Kennedy, Talk Python Training founder, join host Paul Everitt to review Mukul Mantosh’s tutorial, “Developing Serverless APIs using AWS Toolkit.”

Almost exactly a year since his last appearance on the show, Calvin Hendryx-Parker, Six Feet Up’s CTO and AWS Community Hero, joined Episode #224 of the Python Bytes Podcast.

Gabrielle Hendryx-Parker, Six Feet Up’s CEO and co-founder, discussed the challenges and opportunities facing women in tech during a special all-women’s edition of Inside INdiana Business.

Listen to Episode 87 of the Django Chat Podcast to hear more about Calvin's career and Six Feet Up's Django expertise.

Six Feet Up, an advocate for open source technologies, is thrilled to support the Django Software Foundation (DSF) and Django’s continued development as a Silver Corporate Sponsor.

Calvin Hendryx-Parker, Six Feet Up’s CTO and AWS Community Hero, shared his perspective about “Hosting Your Infrastructure Code In The Cloud” on Packet Pushers’ Day Two Cloud Podcast.