Do you receive emails from your website users with the subject “Data Removal Request” that look like this? I hereby withdraw my consent for you to collect, process or store any personal data related t…

This is the third of three posts about building a JSON API with Flask. Make sure you start with part 1 and part 2. In the first post, we used a custom base SQLAlchemy class to serialize and deserializ…

This is the second of three posts about building a JSON API with Flask. Part 1 arrived yesterday and part 3 is arriving tomorrow. In the previous post we learned how to serialize SQLAlchemy models to/…

This is the first of three posts about building JSON APIs with Flask. Part 2 and part 3 arrive tomorrow and the day after. I've seen a lot of questions on StackOverflow about how to turn SQLAlchemy mo…

TLDR: Apple will disable all your Alcatraz plugins in Xcode 8. Read this GitHub issue for more info and give Apple feedback to let them know we need a fully functioning replacement before disabling th…

SSL is CPU Intensive. If you haven't already enabled SSL session caching, do that NOW. But what if you have many unique requests and your load balancer is maxing out it's CPU? That was the case with W…

You've probably seen that requirements.txt file in the root of your favorite Python repo listing high-level dependencies. flask==0.9 sqlalchemy==0.9.10 alembic==0.8.4 Fixing dependencies to a specific…