


paxos, a revelation of distributed consensus when scaling a distributed architecture
paxos The work that I mainly do in real life is focused on architecting systems and platforms and this has to do a lot with DevOps. I don’t know if […]

gRPC Practical Tutorial – Magic That Generates Code
This is a really nice article I wanted to share that helped me understand the gRPC protocol a little bit deeper. It also offers a nice hands-on experience for the […]

Scaling #Python on Heroku: Deployment, part 1
It’s always good for a developer to have a couple of different deployment options under their belt. Why not try deploying your site to Heroku, as well as PythonAnywhere? Heroku […]

Smart Home Automation with #Python
There are many home automation systems that put python as a support for the extension. Being a dynamic language, python makes it very easy to extend and control the systems. […]

Scaling Celery #Heroku Workers with Hirefire.io
Recently I had to heavily use background workers because of the increasing traffic on Orfium. This caused me a little bit of panic because I am mostly an API/Rest guy and […]

@Sourcelair: My online #Python IDE
Python IDE Sourcelair is an interesting case of a start up. First of all, it is close to my heart because their main goal is to help developers (like you […]

Implementing a Braintree Payment API Integration with Python and Django
I was overwhelmed with the reception of my last python post and the many conversations it initiated, mainly in Twitter. The main thing that I think was more interesting for people reading my […]

APIs with Python, Flask, Firebase and Pubnub
Yesterday I wanted to build a quick prototype that would scale for some hundreds of users. I needed realtime notifications, scalable backend, geofencing queries and something easy ti build the REST interface […]