After eleven years and nine months, PyPI’s test suite no longer uses the pretend stubbing library. A thank-you to Alex Gaynor, and the story of 53 small pull requests, six production bugs, and a suite that got bigger without getting slower.
Pour One Out for Bourbon 🥃
The post expresses gratitude towards thoughtbot and emphasizes the importance of Free Open Source Software (FOSS) in software development. It recounts the author’s journey with PyPI.org, detailing the replacement of outdated code libraries with modern solutions, while promoting collaboration in open-source communities. The author encourages others to participate in FOSS projects.
Reduce AWS Lambda Latencies with Keep-Alive in Python
It starts, as many stories do, with a question. On September 10th, AWS Serverless Hero Luc van Donkersgoed shared his observations on the relationship of reduced latency with increased request rate when…
Container-to-Container Communication
In a containerized world, is there a material difference between communicating over local network TCP vs local Unix domain sockets?
AWS DeepComposer 🎹➡️☁️🎶
This year’s Amazon Web Services re:Invent conference in Las Vega, Nevada, was a veritable smorgasbord of announcements, product launches, previews, and a ton of information to try and digest at once. One…
Extending ECS Auto-scaling for under $2/month with Lambda
The Problem Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pretty cool. You ought to know that by now. if you don’t, take a few hours and check out some tutorials and play around. One…
Setting Up a Datadog-to-AWS Integration
When approaching a new service provider, sometimes it can be confusing on how to get set up to best communicate with them – some processes involve multiple steps, multiple interfaces, confusing terminology,…
Counts are good, States are better
Datadog is great at pulling in large amounts of metrics, and provides a web-based platform to explore, find, and monitor a variety of systems. One such system integration is PostgresQL (aka ‘Postgres’,…
There’s a New Player in Town, named Habitat
You may have heard some buzz around the launch of Chef‘s new open source project Habitat (still in beta), designed to change a bit of how we think about building and delivering…
How Do You Let The Cat Out of the Bag?
TL; DR: I’m excited about taking a break from work for a bit, and enjoying some lazy summer days. Let’s drink a glass of wine sometime, and May the Fourth Be With You!