Links 18-09-29

Posted at — Sep 29, 2018

Dev

A crash course on Serverless with AWS - Image resize on-the-fly with Lambda and S3 – Handling large images has always been a pain…
PyQt5 tutorial – Learn how you can create a Python GUI in 2018.
How Dropbox rolled out one of the largest Python 3 migrations ever – Dropbox is one of the most popular applications in the world, and much of it is written in Python. Three years ago, the company began moving to Python 3 and has recently finished the migration. Max Bélanger and Damien DeVille explain why Dropbox made the jump to Python 3, outline the new architecture that was required, and share how Dropbox accomplished this feat through a gradual rollout process.

9 open source API testing tools – “APIs are the basis of modern software development, especially as more and more teams move away from monolithic applications and begin adopting a microservices approach to software development. With microservices making up the backbone of most newer development efforts, API testing becomes even more critical than before,” writes Joe Colantonio, founder of TestTalks.
From Docker to elastic, self-healing infrastructure – Pablo Borja of laundry app Mr Jeff details the startup’s infrastructure transition from a monolith to a containerized microservices architecture, which was made possible with a little help from Kubernetes.
How to install, run, and connect to Jupyter notebook on a remote server.
How to set up logical replication with PostgreSQL 10 on Ubuntu 18.04.

2018 Global Brand Health Report – Tech workers reveal the companies they want to work for and what they value in a job offer.
Where Vim Came From – brief history of vim.
Here’s a tutorial on creating an OS from scratch.
Convert files at the command line with Pandoc – This guide shows you how to use Pandoc to convert your documents into many different file formats.
Dark Mode for webpages – This extension inverts brightness of web pages and aims to reduce eyestrain while browsing the web.
GNU turns 35 – GNU, a “free software” project encompassing both an operating system and an extensive collection of computer software, was publicly announced on September 27, 1983. See why five members of the free and open source community still love GNU.