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• Accepting Payments with Stripe, Vue.js, and Flask

  Posted by Michael Herman on Jun 11, 2018

  This post details how to develop a web app for selling products using Stripe, Vue.js, and Flask.

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• Developing a Single Page App with Flask and Vue.js

  Posted by Michael Herman on May 29, 2018

  The following is a step-by-step walkthrough of how to set up a basic CRUD app with Vue and Flask.

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• Testing Angular with Cypress and Docker

  Posted by Michael Herman on May 7, 2018

  This post details how to add end-to-end tests to an Angular app with Cypress and Docker.

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• Developing an Asynchronous Task Queue in Python

  Posted by Michael Herman on Apr 30, 2018

  This post looks at how to implement several asynchronous task queues using Python's multiprocessing library and Redis.

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• Test-Driven Development with React, Jest, and Enzyme - Part 2

  Posted by Caleb Pollman on Apr 23, 2018

  In part 2, we'll finish the UI by adding the number and operator keys before we dive in to adding the basic calculator functionality.

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• Test-Driven Development with React, Jest, and Enzyme - Part 1

  Posted by Caleb Pollman on Apr 16, 2018

  In part 1, we'll set up the overall project and then dive into developing the UI with Test-driven Development.

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• Running Spark with Docker Swarm on DigitalOcean

  Posted by Michael Herman on Apr 9, 2018

  This post details how to deploy Apache Spark to a Docker Swarm Cluster on DigitalOcean.

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• Migrating from Heroku to AWS

  Posted by Pete Jeffryes on Apr 5, 2018

  This post organizes some of the best tutorials on the web to migrate from Heroku to AWS.

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• Sending Confirmation Emails with Flask, Redis Queue, and Amazon SES

  Posted by Michael Herman on Mar 27, 2018

  This blog post looks at how to send confirmation emails to newly registered users with Flask, Redis Queue, and Amazon SES.

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• Distributed Testing with Selenium Grid and Docker

  Posted by Michael Herman on Mar 19, 2018

  This post shows how to distribute automated tests with Selenium Grid and Docker Swarm. We'll also look at how to run tests against a number of browsers and automate the provisioning and deprovisioning of machines to keep costs down.

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• Asynchronous Tasks with Falcon and Celery

  Posted by Michael Herman on Mar 12, 2018

  This post shows how to integrate Celery into the Python-based Falcon web framework.

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• Concurrent Web Scraping with Selenium Grid and Docker Swarm

  Posted by Michael Herman on Mar 5, 2018

  This post details how to run a Python and Selenium-based web scraper in parallel with Selenium Grid and Docker Swarm.

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• Asynchronous Tasks with Flask and Redis Queue

  Posted by Michael Herman on Feb 27, 2018

  This post looks at how to configure Redis Queue (RQ) to handle long-running tasks in a Flask app.

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• Building A Concurrent Web Scraper With Python and Selenium

  Posted by Caleb Pollman on Feb 19, 2018

  This is a quick post that looks at how to speed up a simple, Python-based web scraping and crawling script with parallel processing via the multiprocessing library. We'll also break down the script itself and show how to test the parsing functionality.

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• Behavior-Driven Development with Django and Aloe

  Posted by Jason Parent on Feb 13, 2018

  In the following tutorial, we walk you through the BDD development cycle by programming an example feature using Django and Aloe.

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