Better Package Management
Published: May 08, 2013
Published: May 08, 2013
You are managing your Python packages using pip and requirements.txt spec
files already. Maybe, you are even pinning them
too—that’s awesome. But how do you keep your environments clean and fresh?
Alexander Klöpping in Silicon Valley
Published: May 07, 2013
Published: May 07, 2013
Over the last three weeks, the Dutch broadcaster VARA has been airing three special episodes of DWDD University: a documentary Alexander Klöpping made about Silicon Valley.
Pin Your Packages
Published: September 26, 2012
Published: September 26, 2012
In building your Python application and its dependencies for production, you want to make sure that your builds are predictable and deterministic. Therefore, always pin your dependencies.
Open Sourcing: the Ultimate Isolation
Published: September 09, 2012
Published: September 09, 2012
Reflecting on how I build software lately, I noticed a pattern. I tend to write libraries in absolute isolation, as if they were open sourced and the world is watching along.
In this post I try to explain why this works so well for me.
Introducing RQ
Published: March 28, 2012
Published: March 28, 2012
Today, I’m open sourcing a project that I’ve been working for the last few months. It is a Python library to put work in the background, that you’d typically use in a web context. It is designed to be simple to set up and use, and be of help in almost any modern Python web stack.