Blog Tutorials
Application Performance Monitoring AWS Lambda Functions with Sentry
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Lambda is a usage-based computing infrastructure service that can execute Python 3 code. One of the challenges of this environment is ensuring efficient performance of your Lambda Functions. Application performance monitoring (APM) is particularly... (read more)
How to Monitor Python Functions on AWS Lambda with Sentry
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Lambda is a usage-based compute service that can run Python 3 code. Errors can happen in any environment you are running your application in, so it is necessary to have reliable monitoring in place to have visibility... (read more)
Using Django & AssemblyAI for More Accurate Twilio Call Transcriptions
Recording phone calls with one or more participants is easy with Twilio's Programmable Voice API, but the speech-to-text accuracy can be poor, especially for transcription of words... (read more)
Higher Accuracy Twilio Voice Transcriptions with Python and Flask
Twilio's Programmable Voice API is commonly used to initiate and receive phone calls, but the transcription accuracy for recordings often leaves a lot to be desired. In this tutorial, we'll see how to connect an outbound phone... (read more)
Using Sentry to Handle Python Exceptions in Django Projects
Web applications built in Django can become sprawlingly complex over time, which is one reason why centralized error handling is important. This tutorial will guide you through adding a free, basic Sentry configuration to a new Django project.
When we're done, you will be able to view centralized error... (read more)
How to Transcribe Speech Recordings into Text with Python
When you have a recording where one or more people are talking, it's useful to have a highly accurate and automated way to extract the spoken words into text. Once you have the text, you can use it for further analysis or as an accessibility feature.
In this tutorial, we'll use a high accuracy speech-to-text web... (read more)
Tracking Daily User Data in Django with django-user-visit
It can be tedious to figure out what data to track, create data models and build middleware for your Django project if you just want to collect some basic information about clients that connect to your web application . Fortunately, the... (read more)
Quickly Use Bootstrap 4 in a Django Template with a CDN
The Django web framework makes it easy to render HTML using the Django template engine. However, the default styling on HTML pages usually need a Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) framework such as... (read more)
How to Report Errors in Flask Web Apps with Sentry
Flask web applications are highly customizable by developers thanks to the framework's extension-based architecture, but that flexibility can sometimes lead to more errors when you run the application due to rough edges between the libraries.
Reporting errors is crucial to... (read more)
Reporting Exceptions in Python Scripts with Sentry
Python scripts are the glue that keep many applications and their infrastructure running, but when one of your scripts throws an exception you may not know about it immediately unless you have a central place to aggregate the errors. That's where adding Sentry can solved this distributed error logging... (read more)
Exporting pandas DataFrames into SQLite with SQLAlchemy
It is common when performing exploratory data analysis, for example when examining COVID-19 data with pandas, to load from files like a CSV, XML, or JSON into a pandas DataFrame. You may then do some work... (read more)
Learning pandas by Exploring COVID-19 Data
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control provides daily-updated worldwide COVID-19 data that is easy to download in JSON, CSV or XML formats. In this... (read more)
The Best Resources for Developers to Learn Finance
Software developers should understand the basics of finance not only to manage their own money but also to understand how businesses' software projects are funded.
Understanding how other people who work in accounting, finance and project management think about business and finance in particular can help you make better... (read more)
Basic Data Types in Python 3: Booleans
Welcome back to our ongoing series of blog posts on basic data types in Python 3! Last time, we explored the functionality of strings. Today, we dive in to another key data type - booleans. Booleans (and "boolean logic") are an important concept in... (read more)
Basic Data Types in Python 3: Strings
There is a lot to learn on your Python journey when you are new to the programming language. Once you are comfortable writing and executing code, your first stop becomes understanding how to represent data in your code. No matter the language, there are a few basic data types you'll use all the time... (read more)
Developer-led Sales for Startups
This blog post contains the slides along with a loose transcript from my talk on the promises and perils of developer-led sales as an early-stage company method to acquire customers.
I gave this talk remotely to Ubiquity.VC portfolio company startup founders and the Extended Team on June 26,... (read more)
Introduction to Ansible video course released!
Check out the just-launched video course, Introduction to Ansible on Talk Python Training. This is the perfect course for you if you want to learn to configure servers and deploy web apps... (read more)
Adding Okta Authentication to an Existing Flask Web App
It can be a lot of work to piece together a full authentication system if you have an existing Flask web application that you are coding. Okta makes it much easier to drop-in a complete user authentication system without a lot of additional effort. In this tutorial we... (read more)
Fresh Tutorials on Full Stack Python
There are a bunch of new tutorials on Full Stack Python that were written since the last time I sent out an email newsletter. These range from getting started with some popular open source projects to integrating third party APIs to... (read more)
How to Provision Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Linux Servers on DigitalOcean
Python web applications need to be deployed to a production server or service so your users have access to the application.
DigitalOcean is one such... (read more)
How to Add User Authentication to Flask Apps with Okta
User authentication is a basic feature in web applications so people can create and access their own accounts. Unfortunately, authentication is not always easy to set up and there are many ways to incorrectly implement login and logout features.
This tutorial walks through how to use the
Configure Python 3, Flask and Gunicorn on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Ubuntu Linux's latest Long Term Support (LTS) operating system version is 18.04 and was released in April 2018. The 18.04 update is code named "Bionic Beaver" and it includes Python 3 by default.... (read more)
Running Bottle Apps in Docker Containers on macOS
It can be confusing to figure out how to use Docker containers in your Python and Bottle development environment workflow. This tutorial will quickly show you the exact steps to get Docker up and running on... (read more)
How to Explain Your Products to Developers
This blog post contains the slides along with a loose transcript from my talk on appropriately marketing products to software developers that I gave at Silicon Valley Bank during Ubiquity.VC's summit for founders, investors and technical advisors on May 24,... (read more)
How to Add Maps to Django Web App Projects with Mapbox
Building interactive maps into a Django web application can seem daunting if you do not know where to begin, but it is easier than you think if you use a developer tool such as Mapbox.
In this post we will build a simple Django project with a single app and add an... (read more)
Full Stack Python at PyCon US 2018
PyCon US 2018 kicked off today with the first day of tutorials. I am flying in tomorrow and will be there through the end of the weekend. If you're around, come by either the Twilio booth or the... (read more)
Monitoring Python 3.6 Functions on AWS Lambda
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Lambda is a usage-based
execution environment that can run Python 3.6 code. If you have never
previously used AWS Lambda then you can read
How to Create Your First Python 3.6 AWS Lambda Function.
However, this tutorial will give you... (read more)
Developing Flask Apps in Docker Containers on macOS
Adding Docker to your Python and Flask development environment can be confusing when you are just getting started with containers. Let's quickly get Docker installed and configured for developing Flask web... (read more)
ReportLab and Future Community Project Launches
Congratulations to fellow Python developer Mike Driscoll for his successful ReportLab: PDF Processing with Python Kickstarter that just concluded with over double his funding... (read more)
Monitoring Django Projects with Rollbar
One fast way to scan for exceptions and errors in your Django web application projects is to add a few lines of code to include a hosted monitoring tool.
In this tutorial we will learn to add the Rollbar monitoring service to a web app to... (read more)
5 Years of Full Stack Python
Full Stack Python began five years ago today, on December 23, 2012, with Git commit 69f5f46.
I originally built the site to help out a group of junior... (read more)
GitPython and New Git Tutorials
First Steps with GitPython is a quick tutorial that shows how to get started using the awesome GitPython library for programmatically interacting with Git repositories in your Python applications. In the spirit of the... (read more)
First Steps with GitPython
GitPython is a Python code library for programmatically reading from and writing to Git source control repositories.
Let's learn how to use GitPython by quickly installing it and reading from a local cloned Git... (read more)
DevOps, Thank You Maintainers and Contributing to Open Source
DevOps, Continuous Delivery... and You
is a blog post with the slides and notes based on a class I taught at
the University of Virginia this past week. The
talk is relevant as a brief introduction to
DevOps, Continuous Delivery... and You
This blog post contains the slides along with a loose transcript and additional resources from my technical talk on DevOps and Continuous Delivery concepts given at my alma mater, the University of Virginia, to the