ImportPython Newsletter Issue 81.

Preview the Python Serverless Microframework for AWS

Serverless computing is one of the most talked-about subjects among AWS customers. The AWS serverless offerings, AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway, make it possible for developers to create and run API applications with built-in, virtually unlimited scalability without managing any servers. Today the AWS Developer Tools team is excited to announce the preview of the Python Serverless Microframework for AWS. You can read Martin Fowler talking about the benefits of Serverless architecture http://martinfowler.com/articles/serverless.html#benefits 

Continuous Delivery Tool

Reverse debugging for Python

The PyPy team is pleased to give you "RevPDB", a reverse-debugger similar to rr but for Python. 

Facebook chat bot aka joke bot with django tutorial

I have decided to try to develop a chat bot which does only one thing. Send a random joke like the below one without an image irrespective of what the user types 

Book review: “Two Scoops of Django: Best Practices for Django 1.8”

The book can be used as a reference of best practices and a cover-to-cover guide to best practices. I’ve done both and found it to be enjoyable, accessible, and educational when read cover-to-cover and a valuable reference when setting up a new Django project or doing general Django development. It covers a huge range of material. 

Using Spectrum - Standalone Logging Server with Python. Review

Create python app and deploy in cloud for free.

Build Your First Python and Django Application

Decent tutorial to get people started with Python and Django. 

Building an Async Python 3 Serverless Application with Docker

I will show you a simple way to build a “serverless” application and test it via Docker. When I refer to “serverless” I’m referring to the idea that the application is a short lived app, does its job, stops – just like AWS Lambda. I will create two applications each in their own project folders: serverless-app and serverless-web The serverless-app piece is the actual “serverless” piece of this, the web app will run as long as we want. I just gave them similar names to make it easier to keep the projects named closely but different enough to know what does what. 

djangobot: Bridge between Slack and Django, via Channels

Djangobot is a bridge between Slack and a Channels-enabled Django app. Specifically, it is a protocol server that produces and consumes messages for channels-based apps. It is built atop autobahn and twisted. 

Visualizing relationships between python packages

I extracted co-occurence of top 3500 python packages in github repos using the the github data on BigQuery. I implemented the visualization force layout in d3 via the velocity verlet integration. I also clustered the graph using algorithms from python-igraph and updated it to http://graphistry.com/. 

Hiding a payload in PNG files with Python

How could I store files online, in plain sight, for free. Because who doesn’t like a good ‘ol game of hide and seek. But with files. On the internet. Hide files in plain sight. Allow them to be distributed via free public channels. E.g Twitter, Reddit, imgur.