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Python Workers redux: fast cold starts, packages, and a uv-first workflow

Dominik Picheta — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 06:00:00 +0000

Recent advancements in Cloudflare Python Workers means fast cold starts, comprehensive package support, and a great developer experience. We explain how they were achieved and show how Python can be used to build serverless applications on Cloudflare.

Introducing AWS Transform custom: Crush tech debt with AI-powered code modernization

Matheus Guimaraes — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 19:00:29 +0000

Modernize applications at scale with this new AI-powered service that learns your organization's patterns, automates transformations across repositories, and cuts execution time by up to 80% through both pre-built and custom capabilities.

Python 3.14 runtime now available in AWS Lambda

Leandro Cavalcante Damascena — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 21:29:50 +0000

AWS Lambda now supports Python 3.14 as both a managed runtime and container base image. Python is a popular language for building serverless applications. Developers can now take advantage of new features and enhancements when creating serverless applications on Lambda.

A closer look at Python Workflows, now in beta

Caio Nogueira — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 14:00:00 +0000

Cloudflare Workflows, our durable execution engine for running multi-step applications, now supports Python. That means less friction, more possibilities, and another reason to build on Cloudflare.

DispatchGym: Grab’s reinforcement learning research framework

Grab Tech — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 07:23:00 +0000

Introduction DispatchGym is a research framework designed to facilitate Reinforcement Learning (RL) studies and applications for the dispatch system, which matches bookings with drivers. The primary goal is to empower data scientists with a tool that ...

The forecast is clear: clouds on e-paper, powered by the cloud

Marek Majkowski — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 14:00:00 +0000

Follow along as I build a custom weather display using Cloudflare Workers and a popular e-paper display.

How SmugMug Increased Data Modeling Productivity with Amazon Q Developer

Will Matos — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 15:40:38 +0000

This post is co-written with Dr. Geoff Ryder, Manager, at SmugMug. Introduction SmugMug operates two very large online photo platforms: SmugMug and Flickr. These platforms enable more than 100 million customers to safely store, search, share, and sell tens of billions of photos every day. However, the data science and engineering team at SmugMug and […]

Python 3.13 runtime now available in AWS Lambda

Julian Wood — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 14:21:05 +0000

This post is written by Julian Wood, Principal Developer Advocate, and Leandro Cavalcante Damascena, Senior Solutions Architect Engineer. AWS Lambda now supports Python 3.13 as both a managed runtime and container base image. Python is a popular language for building serverless applications. The Python 3.13 release includes a number of changes to the language, the implementation, and the […]

Using the zabbix_utils Library for Tool Development

Aleksandr Iantsen — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 12:16:49 +0000

In this article, we will explore a practical example of using the zabbix_utils library to solve a non-trivial task…

The post Using the zabbix_utils Library for Tool Development appeared first on Zabbix Blog.

Modernize your legacy databases with AWS data lakes, Part 2: Build a data lake using AWS DMS data on Apache Iceberg

Shaheer Mansoor — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 20:15:02 +0000

This is part two of a three-part series where we show how to build a data lake on AWS using a modern data architecture. This post shows how to load data from a legacy database (SQL Server) into a transactional data lake (Apache Iceberg) using AWS Glue. We show how to build data pipelines using AWS Glue jobs, optimize them for both cost and performance, and implement schema evolution to automate manual tasks. To review the first part of the series, where we load SQL Server data into Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) using AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS), see Modernize your legacy databases with AWS data lakes, Part 1: Migrate SQL Server using AWS DMS.

Diving Deeper into Projen: Exploring Advanced Features

Michael Tran — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 14:31:19 +0000

We will be highlighting Projen’s powerful features that cater to various aspects of project management and development. We’ll examine how Projen enhances polyglot programming within Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud Development Kit constructs. We’ll also touch on its built-in support for common development tools and practices. In our previous blog, we introduced you to the […]

Introducing picamzero: Simplifying Raspberry Pi Camera projects for beginners

Laura Sach — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 10:23:46 +0000

Thousands of learners worldwide take their first steps into text-based programming using the Python programming language. Python is not only beginner-friendly, but is also used extensively in industry. In 2015, Python developer Daniel Pope, who has a keen interest in education, noticed that beginners often have great ideas for creating projects but struggle because the…

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Amazon Q Developer Code Challenge

Aaron Sempf — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 11:32:18 +0000

Amazon Q Developer is a generative artificial intelligence (AI) powered conversational assistant that can help you understand, build, extend, and operate AWS applications. You can ask questions about AWS architecture, your AWS resources, best practices, documentation, support, and more. With Amazon Q Developer in your IDE, you can write a comment in natural language that […]

Bridging the gap from Scratch to Python: Introducing ‘Paint with Python’

Marc Scott — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 09:34:11 +0000

We have developed an innovative activity to support young people as they transition from visual programming languages like Scratch to text-based programming languages like Python. This activity introduces a unique interface that empowers learners to easily interact with Python while they create a customised painting app. “The kids liked the self-paced learning, it allowed them…

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Make your interaction with Zabbix API faster: Async zabbix_utils.

Aleksandr Iantsen — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 07:16:52 +0000

In this article, we will explore the capabilities of the new asynchronous modules of the zabbix_utils library. Thanks to…

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Bringing Python to Workers using Pyodide and WebAssembly

Hood Chatham — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 13:00:45 +0000

Introducing Cloudflare Workers in Python, now in open beta! We've revamped our systems to support Python, from the runtime to deployment. Learn about Python Worker's lifecycle, dynamic linking, and memory snapshots in this post.

Best practices for managing Terraform State files in AWS CI/CD Pipeline

Arun Kumar Selvaraj — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 19:50:44 +0000

Introduction Today customers want to reduce manual operations for deploying and maintaining their infrastructure. The recommended method to deploy and manage infrastructure on AWS is to follow Infrastructure-As-Code (IaC) model using tools like AWS CloudFormation, AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) or Terraform. One of the critical components in terraform is managing the state file which […]

Introducing zabbix_utils – the official Python library for Zabbix API

Aleksandr Iantsen — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 11:36:28 +0000

Zabbix is a flexible and universal monitoring solution that integrates with a wide variety of different systems right out…

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Building resilient serverless applications using chaos engineering

Marcia Villalba — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 18:03:02 +0000

This post is written by Suranjan Choudhury (Head of TME and ITeS SA) and Anil Sharma (Sr PSA, Migration) Chaos engineering is the process of stressing an application in testing or production environments by creating disruptive events, such as outages, observing how the system responds, and implementing improvements. Chaos engineering helps you create the real-world […]