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From smoothly automating away hours of IT drudgery to providing configuration management of machines on site or in the cloud, Ansible is a popular platform for modern software deployments. At the end of our two-part series on OpenStack, we briefly mentioned that Ansible is one of the technologies that can be used to...

In our previous article, we explained that OpenStack is an open source Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) platform composed of many individual software services and tools—almost entirely written in Python—which brings flexibility, scalability, and interoperability to cloud-deployed software. OpenStack gives organizations a pathway into the benefits of the cloud without vendor lock-in or a closed...

Python is a great programming language for implementing large-scale cloud-based software, as we saw in our post about Dropbox. Python’s strengths—fast and easy prototyping, scalability, extensive built-in collection of modules, and a comprehensive of ecosystem of third-party packages—make the language very useful for developing cloud software products. The same is true for the...

Since Python is a popular, easy to learn, open source programming language, it has been adapted to fit all sorts of niches. In this article, we’ll discuss how CircuitPython (a fork of MicroPython) is gaining traction for microcontroller programming among makers, students, hobbyists and tinkerers. In a previous article on Python’s role in...