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Scaling serverless apps: some lessons learned 3 January 2021

Building apps on serverless architecture has been a game-changer for me and for developers everywhere, enabling small dev teams to cheaply build and scale services from MVP through to enterprise deployment. Taking advantage of serverless solutions - such as AWS’ Lambda, Google’s Cloud … Read more (6 minute read)

Contribution to Heroku Dev Center 7 May 2013

The Heroku Dev Center is a repository of guides and articles to provide support for those writing applications to be run on the Heroku platform. I recently contributed an article for carrying out Direct to S3 File Uploads in Python, as I have previously used a very similar approach to interface with … Read more (1 minute read)

AJAX + Python + Amazon S3 5 April 2013

I wanted a way in which users can seamlessly upload images for use in the Heroku application discussed in previous posts. Ideally, the image would be uploaded through AJAX as part of a data-entry form, but without having to refresh the page or anything else that would disrupt the user’s … Read more (2 minute read)