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AWS is shiny AWS is so, so shiny and awesome, but when I first got started I felt overwhelmed by the sheer amount of stuff. There is so much flexibility, and cli tools, and ways to do anything. Initially, all I wanted to be able to do the things I&

Deploying your web application with NGINX I was so stoked the first time I'd managed to build a web application. It was solving an actual problem real people were facing. It was love at first site between me and infinite scroll data tables. Then I had to deploy

All without installing a thing! Besides docker, of course! When I was first starting getting with docker I had SO MUCH trouble figuring out the connection strings. Once I got it sorted I wrote myself up a series of templates I could refer to. There's no real purpose

Query a Redis DataStore from a Python Application Redis is one of my favorite technologies to use when I'm building web apps. It's just super. If you haven't used it its sort of like a database, without the structure, and its blazing fast because

MongoDB + Python I only just recently jumped on the MongoDBbandwagon, but I really, really like it. To me, working with MongoDB feels so much more natural. It feels like working with code. MongoDB collections are arrays of objects, as opposed to a SQL DB where we kind of make it

Query a Postgres DB from a Python Application By the end of this blog post you will have all the tools you need to query a Postgresdatabase, with some dummy data, from a python application, all without installing a single thing besides docker onto your computer! Learning Curve If you