In this post I’ll show you how to encrypt and decrypt strings using the AWS Encryption SDK and AWS KMS. Step 1: Install the AWS SDK for Python and the Encryption SDK You’ll need boto3 to create a Master Key programmatically and the aws-encryption-sdk for encrypting and decrypting data. Step 2: Add AWS credentials to
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How to create an AWS Lambda layer
AWS Lambda is a serverless compute service that lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers. Using Lambda, you can create code that will only be run in response to an event. AWS supports lambda functions in many languages including Python. Writing a Python Lambda function is pretty straight forward if your code does
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AWS: Deployment methods
This post discusses the most common deployment methods: all at once, rolling, immutable, and blue/green.
Setting up Django for Deployment: Nginx
This post explains how to install and setup nginx as a reverse proxy to gunicorn and web server to serve static files in Django.
Setting up Django for Deployment: Gunicorn
Web Servers like Apache or NGINX are great for handling HTTP requests. Unfortunately,they typically cannot communicate with Python applications directly. That is where gunicorn comes in.
Learn how to install, configure and run gunicorn with Django in this article.
Installing nginx on Linux
In this post, I show you two ways of installing and configuring nginx on Linux.
How to flatten a list of lists in Python
In this post, I cover a couple of ways to flatten lists of lists or lists of mixed data in standard Python and 3rd party libraries such as Django, Pandas and Matplotlib.
How to use Postman to authenticate to Django Rest Framework
Authenticating with Django REST APIs using HTTP Client
SCP: Sending files between servers using SSH
SCP or Secure Copy is a useful program for sending files between two or more computers over a secure shell (SSH) connection. In this post, I’ll show you how to use SCP to send files from your local computer to a remote, copy files from a remote computer to your local or copy files between
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Tmux
A part of my job involves connecting to a couple of Amazon EC2 instances(Linux servers) regularly to run commands, build, debug and deploy code. All along I’ve been using tabs terminal tabs to keep track of each server connection and the processes running in it. Using the terminal emulator’s tabs feature works okay for simple
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