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One common cause of bugs in many applications is that development and production environments differ. Although in most cases it’s not possible to provide an exact copy of the production environment for development, pursuing dev-prod parity is a worthwhile cause. Most web applications are deployed t…

In the last two blog posts of this series we discussed how to set up a local VM-based development environment for a cloud application, and then built a Flask-RESTful app within this environment. Today, we’ll take our app to AWS, and we’ll set up a remote development environment. The environment we’l…

In the previous blog post in this series, I created a Vagrant VM and provisioned it with Ansible for Python development. In this part, we’ll have a look at a larger application which is configured in the same way. In this post, I’ll introduce an application that I’ll be using for more blog posts in…

This tutorial continues where the previous Docker-Compose tutorial left off. If you haven't read it yet, read about getting Docker-Compose and Flask running in PyCharm first. Like the first tutorial, this one was made on macOS, and although Linux should be similar there may be small differences. For…