All articles by Yann Malet

Launching a website can be an exciting but nerve-wracking experience. With so many moving parts in the website development process, it’s easy to overlook small details that can significantly impact the user experience. To help you avoid potential issues, we’ve …

Whether you are a publisher or marketer, content is pivotal to your role. It either is your product or your product’s success depends on it. But generating the engaging content your brand requires is only half of your challenge. In …

Most of the Django projects I work with take advantage of django.contrib.auth. It manages users and groups and is tightly coupled with django.contrib.admin. In this post, we are going to explore how it resists a potential attacker. The study below …

Virtualization technologies have been around for a while in various forms and over the last several years the container style of virtualization has become popular as a complement (or replacement) to VMs (Virtual Machines / hypervisors). The first half of …

Four years ago, I wrote a blog post called Introduction to Go Debugging with GDB. At the time, the only option was the GNU debugger. Even the official Go documentation page on GDB doesn’t set the bar very high: GDB …

Nowadays, it’s common to deploy multiple application servers, but it poses a very common problem; How are these application servers going to share the media files contributed by the users? Cloud providers like Google, Rackspace or Amazon Web Services solve …

This post could have been titled, “How We Use OpenPGP to Protect Our Secrets.” All the use cases illustrated below use a tool called GnuPG to take care of the crypto details for us. GnuPG is a complete and free …

The most famous quote to characterize python speed is: It is fast enough I have used this quote many times, and I still believe that it applies to most circumstances if you throw enough hardware at the problem. Despite Python …

Building a cluster in the cloud is becoming a mundane step that you have to do several times during the life cycle of a project. There are multiple driving forces behind this fact: Initial set up Redundancy Setting up an …

Let’s Encrypt is a new certificate authority. It is a huge improvement over the manual complex process of acquiring and deploying an HTTPS server. The process is now: Free Automatic (no more login to sites, filling forms, concatenating certificates) This …