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Serving Static Files with uWSGI
Serving Static Files with uWSGI As noted in a previous post, uWSGI is a Swiss Army knife of functionality. One …
Have You Heard About LXC Containers?
Virtualization technologies have been around for a while in various forms and over the last several years the container style …
Debugging Go Code
Four years ago, I wrote a blog post called Introduction to Go Debugging with GDB. At the time, the only …
Sharing Media Files Without S3
Nowadays, it’s common to deploy multiple application servers, but it poses a very common problem; How are these application servers …
How We Manage Our Company-wide Secrets
This post could have been titled, “How We Use OpenPGP to Protect Our Secrets.” All the use cases illustrated below …
Speed Comparison: Putting Pyston and PyPy to the Test
The most famous quote to characterize python speed is: It is fast enough I have used this quote many times, …
Provision a Cluster on Google Cloud with Terraform
Building a cluster in the cloud is becoming a mundane step that you have to do several times during the …
Let's Encrypt DNS Challenge
Let’s Encrypt is a new certificate authority. It is a huge improvement over the manual complex process of acquiring and …
The Trouble with Thumbnails: Part 1
Images are everywhere on the web. Whether you’re building a simple blog, a CMS, or a true web application, chances …
Django Round-Up #39
Featured Django 1.9 release candidate 1 released Last month, saw the release of 1.9 RC1 (now official). It’s the first …
