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Controlling the Flask-SQLAlchemy engine
So this week I was fiddling around with some database connection settings. We use Flask-SQLAlchemy as our ORM for our Flask project but have been experiencing some random socket timeouts when we push to our AWS dev environment. It looked a bit like the database connection was going away, but …
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Docker Hints - Poke a Stopped Container
I am in a situation at the moment where I am trying to install a custom Python package into my little app, but for reasons yet to be determined, it's installing into the wrong directory. Everything we do is Dockerised, which is great til a container crashes and you really …
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UpFront Conference 2019
Last week I attended UpFrontConf in Manchester and well, it was awesome. I am lucky(!) enough to live far far away from Manchester these days, so had to travel up the day before. This meant I could attend the also awesome Before UpFront meetup event at LEAF, featuring the delightful …
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The Prime Directive
Lightning talk given at UpFrontConf on the 22nd of March 2019.