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AWS User Group Talk On Batch

Gave a brief talk to the AWS SG User Group on Batch -- a great service we use a lot. There was sadly no video coverage this month but the...

Pycon APAC Talk On Containers

We presented briefly on our experiences using Docker Containers to improve python software testing. There are many other excellent talks...

Pycon Thailand Talk On XPATH

Check out our recent talk on using XPATH/XML to increase python's already substantial parsing powers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wsw...

AWS Aurora IAM Token Access

A quick follow-up on the longer post about RDS IAM token access for MySQL.  Aurora is similar with one small-but-not-obvious difference. ...

Python Web Scraping Talk

Recently had an opportunity to talk about our experiences using python to pull in web data: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee4VJ2ohLaw&t=1s

Headless Firefox Scraping In AWS

As a follow-on to my Chrome post here is the process needed for Headless Firefox.  It's the same 5 steps re-tailored to a different...

Thoughts On Managing Docker Images With Makefiles

Containers are fantastic.  Docker is an excellent container platform.  And there are huge benefits to containerizing applications for...

AWS RDS MySQL Token Access In Python

We use AWS' RDS to manage our relational database needs.  One quirk in this service is that, in addition to all the cloud setup stuff,...

Headless Chrome Web Scraping In The Cloud

Headless Chrome is here.  But running a headless browser on your desktop is pretty useless.  What does it take to get a Chrome-based...

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