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Python and related tooling continues to progress and evolve. I’d like to share some of the tools and practices we’re using at JetBridge to develop python web applications. This is by no means an exhaustive account or a definite list of all best practices, and I...

Since I love not running servers I’ve been excited about the chance to use serverless WebSockets via AWS API Gateway. In this new scheme you define Lambda functions that react to events such as authentication, connect, disconnect, and user-defined events that can be read from JSON message bodies.

AWS services are powerful but generally need to be put together in coherent ways to achieve your goals. They’re modules that provide the functionality you need but still require some glue to make a nice developer experience. Fortunately because the entire platform is scriptable, software tools and additional layers of abstraction are rapidly increasing the capabilities of software engineers on their own to manage configuration without the need for any hardware or humans in between.