Blog Archive

Deploying a Django report-scheduler on AWS Lambda with Zappa instead of a traditional web+Celery setup, and the networking, credentials, and SNS gotchas that came with it.

Notes on hitting Postgres's 63-byte column name limit and 1600-column limit while building pivot/transpose tables for an analytics project, and how to work around both.

A follow-up to the original RapidJson post with a more detailed example showing how to build nested objects and arrays into a JSON DOM tree in C++.

Voice-controlling LEDs on a Raspberry Pi using Google Home custom commands, Api.ai intents/webhooks, and a small Flask app driving the GPIO pins.

Notes on building Bugyou, a fedmsg consumer that reports Autocloud image build test results to tracking services, and a gotcha with multiprocessing Manager proxy dicts.

Volunteering to mentor the Pagure and Anitya devsprints at PyCon India 2015, and a rundown of how the sprint track worked.

A day-by-day recap of FUDCon India 2015 in Pune — talks on Fedora release engineering, GlusterFS, Drupal 8, SELinux, kernel modules, Docker, and Flask.

A college final-year Django project for lodging FIRs/General Diaries online, using government ID verification, Site2SMS OTPs backed by Redis, and PDF report generation via email.