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Building a Django App for Finance Professionals
Six Feet Up helped a U.S.-based financial services company future-proof the application that its finance professionals use by building new features using adaptable, open-source technologies and moving it to the cloud, while also training its developers to use these technologies.
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Real Python: Managing Big Data with Airflow
On Episode 142 of The Real Python Podcast, Calvin Hendryx-Parker, Six Feet Up’s CTO and AWS Community Hero, discusses a recent project that utilized Apache Airflow to make a statewide health system’s big data architecture faster and more manageable.
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Building a Big Data Pipeline With Cloud Native Tools
Six Feet Up helped a statewide health system with 19 hospitals under its umbrella — and petabytes of data to aggregate daily — rebuild its infrastructure and implement a new world of cloud native and open source tooling, including Airflow, Spark, Delta Lakes (delta.io) and Terraform.
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Tech Field Day: Six Feet Up CTO Analyzes Multi-cloud Backup Solution
Calvin Hendryx-Parker, Six Feet Up’s CTO and AWS Community Hero, weighed in an innovative approach to cloud backup during a Gestalt IT Tech Field Day Showcase recently.
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Lambda vs. Fargate: The Cost of Running 24/7
A quick comparison of AWS Lambda and Fargate to see which option is the more affordable for running regularly occurring, long-running processes.
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Connect GitHub Actions and AWS using OIDC
With OpenID Connect (OIDC) Identity Provider for GitHub Actions, GitHub Actions simply and conveniently interacts with AWS. In this post, you’ll see an example Terraform configuration for setting up the authentication and an Actions workflow that uses it.
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The Importance of Precise Error Messages
Using the S3 Presigned URLs and Presigned Posts features almost had the Six Feet Up team stumped, but after some troubleshooting, uploads were a breeze.
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Secrets of Building Python Container Images for AWS Lambda
Today, developers can use container images for AWS Lambda code — a helpful way to run much more complex code in a familiar package. However, there are some non-obvious differences that can make building Python app images for AWS Lambda frustrating.
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An Official Cloud Migration Cookbook
Whether you are responsible for a single application, a large environment or somewhere in between, it’s likely you’ve wanted to know how to maximize your cloud service providers’ capabilities. Explore templates, critical considerations and techniques to successfully tackle a cloud migration.
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Serverless Django: Exploring the State of the Art on AWS
As deployment options for web apps have multiplied in the past few years, AWS Lambda continues to stand out as a powerful, simple way to run a web app with minimal maintenance and cost — if there is low traffic.
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