jonwayne

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by jonwayne 9y ago
pipsi installs into isolated virtualenvs, then symlinks into `~/.local/bin` just like `pip install --user`. Combining pipsi for cross-project tools (tox, twine, nox, etc.) with pipenv for project-specific packages is all you need.
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by jonwayne 10y ago
(Not GP but also work on Python on GCP) What was the specific Python 3 issue? I didn't see anything in your post specifically about Python 3.
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by jonwayne 10y ago
I am in Developer Relations so this is indeed part of my job. I'm glad we can be helpful.
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by jonwayne 10y ago
We are indeed working on creating a standalone Task Queues service that will work across all hosting platforms. You can sign up for the alpha here: https://goo.gl/Ya0AZd (I work on the Python developer experience for Google
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by jonwayne 10y ago
Like Sublime.
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by jonwayne 10y ago
You can use Postgres and Redis. :) I'm working on writing new tutorials for both of those, but in the meantime: You can host your own Postgres on Compute Engine [1] or use a hosted provider like ElephantSQL [2]. You can use whatever cl
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by jonwayne 10y ago
Mozilla's websites notably use Python and Django.
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by jonwayne 10y ago
Re: > Google App Engine's dev_appserver.py completely broke after an update, caused in part by another Google library being installed (protobuf...). Still not sure if the fix was rolled into a release yet... We've been having a
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by jonwayne 11y ago
The whole "WSGI revision" effort is intended to solve the problem of websockets (and HTTP 2.0) across frameworks and servers.
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by jonwayne 11y ago
I wrote a flask extension that makes it a little easier to set these headers: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/flask-talisman
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by jonwayne 11y ago
Yes.
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by jonwayne 11y ago
Check out https://cloud.google.com/nodejs
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by jonwayne 11y ago
> I tried to move beyond archaic Java with managed VMs when they were first announced. Please keep in mind that Managed VMs is still in beta, however, there are other parts of Google Cloud Platform that are in GA, including Compute Engin
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by jonwayne 11y ago
If you are a Java user and want to take advantage of Java 8, I really encourage you to check out managed VMs. We have a runtime available for Java 8 & Jetty 9 on github here: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/a
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by jonwayne 11y ago
Absolutely not. You can use Cloud Datastore, or you can connect to any database that can communicate over sockets or http, including Cloud SQL. Of note is that Datastore has a free tier, Cloud SQL does not, and Socket usage can incur (some)
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by jonwayne 11y ago
I moved to Seattle from Atlanta 8 months ago and I haven't managed to make any friends. This place is rough.