How to Deploy a Django Project on AWS Elastic Beanstalk
A modern, end-to-end guide to deploying a Django app on AWS Elastic Beanstalk in 2026 — the EB CLI workflow, the current Amazon Linux 2023 Python plat...
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How to Set Up a Custom Domain for Amazon CloudFront
A 2026 step-by-step guide to pointing a custom domain like cdn.example.com at an Amazon CloudFront distribution, with a free ACM certificate in us-eas...
Read articlePaginating S3 Objects with boto3 in Python
S3's list_objects_v2 returns at most 1000 keys per call. A complete boto3 guide to paginating S3 objects: the manual ContinuationToken loop, the idiom...
Read articleHow to Configure & Test a Load Balancer on AWS EC2
A practical 2026 walkthrough of creating an Application Load Balancer in front of EC2 instances - target groups, listeners, health checks, HTTPS - and...
Read articleGetting Started with Jupyter Notebook (formerly IPython Notebook)
The IPython Notebook is now Jupyter. This 2026 guide shows how to install JupyterLab, run notebooks locally or in VS Code and Colab, use magics and ke...
Read articlefactory_boy in Django: A Better Alternative to Fixtures
Static Django fixtures rot on every schema change. Learn how to use factory_boy instead: declarative factories with Faker, Sequence, SubFactory and po...
Read articleHow to Improve Your Google PageSpeed Score & Core Web Vitals — Part 1
Google's PageSpeed score is only a proxy in 2026 — Core Web Vitals are what count. This Part 1 guide covers LCP, INP (which replaced FID), and CLS, th...
Read articlePython Coding Best Practices: Pythonic Idioms & Techniques
A practical, 2026-ready guide to writing clean, Pythonic, maintainable code — readability and PEP 8, modern idioms (comprehensions, f-strings, the wal...
Read articleAmazon SES: Handling Bounces, Complaints & Suppression
Amazon SES enforces strict bounce-rate and complaint-rate thresholds — exceed them and AWS can pause your sending. This 2026 guide shows the modern wa...
Read articleGenerating PDFs in Python with xhtml2pdf (HTML to PDF)
Generate PDFs from HTML in Python with xhtml2pdf (pisa) — a pure-Python, pip-only library built on ReportLab. Covers install, the CreatePDF API, rende...
Read articleConverting Audio & Video with FFmpeg (CLI + Python)
A practical 2026 guide to converting and transcoding audio and video with FFmpeg - the command-line essentials (containers, codecs, CRF, trimming, GIF...
Read article7 Mobile App Development Mistakes to Avoid
Most mobile apps fail on decisions, not code. Here are the 7 most costly mistakes founders and dev teams make in 2026 — wrong build approach, weak UX ...
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