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andrew_k

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If you are creating connections outside of handler, it gets cached by Lambda between invocations. However you'll need to tune your database settings or you'll run out of connections on traffic spikes. Depends on your pattern of usage. Also cold start of lambda in VPC could take around 15 seconds https://www.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/49l91l/lambda_function... https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?messageID=735318&t... My experience with DynamoDb was much smoother than with Postgres RDS in VPC

For me the most interesting part in this patent was a "PATENT CITATIONS" section. Most of the patents in this section are quite obvious as well. Like Amazon's "Method and system for placing a purchase order via a communications network" basically describes every E-Commerce site on the internet.

Thanks a lot for the link, I was going to write Markdown -> NSAttributedString library myself, because I couldn't find one. Right now I'm just using DTCoreText and convert Markdown to HTML on the server.

Vim Creep 14 years ago

That's why I switched to AppCode for Objective-C code editing. It has pretty good Vim bindings plugin, and you still have an autocomplete.

Assuming that this project on GitHub is yours https://github.com/cirsteve/courseslate and you show it to potential employers, I would recommend you to learn pip/virtualenv, read about django best practices, (http://lincolnloop.com/django-best-practices/) Also I would recommend to cleanup your repository from files that are not completely necessary (varios .tar.gz files, .ssh folder, .bash_history, etc.) Those things give you away as a beginner.

For Django-based apps - you should definitely take a look at Pinax http://pinaxproject.com/

Satchmo has some interesting approaches to solving certain problems in Django (like allowing to override general site settings in admin) - http://www.satchmoproject.com/

For examples of more lightweight WSGI apps using Werkzeug:

Zine (blogging engine) - http://zine.pocoo.org/

Solace (forum similar to StackOverflow) - http://opensource.plurk.com/Solace/

I know several guys, who were doctors in former USSR, came to US, and now are working in department stores, or driving a taxi, because the path to get licensed in the US is too long, overcomplicated, and costs lots of money.

Try Django. Documentation on their site should be enough for you to get going. Also there a plenty of reusable django applications available on the internet, like djago-registration, django-comment-utils, which will allow you to create a website with a lot of bells and whistles in a day or so.