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‎content/pages/03-data/22-markup-languages.markdown‎

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* [Yet Another Markup LOL?](https://urcomputeringpal.com/2018/09/09/yaml)
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explains the virtues and the significant downsides of tooling for the
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[YAML markup language](http://yaml.org/). Mistakes in configuration files
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that use YAML or any markup language often fly past
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[testing](/testing.html) and
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[continuous integration](/continuous-integration.html) services that
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catch errors in regular code. The post also introduces a couple of tools
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that can help with specific YAML issues, especially when using Kubernetes.

‎content/pages/04-web-development/00-web-development.markdown‎

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* [Web Architecture 101](https://engineering.videoblocks.com/web-architecture-101-a3224e126947)
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is a great high-level overview of the technologies that run the modern
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web, such as DNS, load balancers, web application servers (for Python
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that equates to [WSGI servers](/wsgi-servers.html)),
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[data bases](/databases.html), [task queues](/task-queues.html),
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[caching](/caching.html) and several other critical concepts.
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* The [Evolution of the Web](http://www.evolutionoftheweb.com/) visualizes
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* [How browsers work](https://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/internals/howbrowserswork/)
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provides an overview with solid detail on how browsers take the HTML,
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CSS, JavaScript, images and other files as input and render webpages as
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output. It is well worth your time to know this stuff as a web developer.
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* [Web app checklist](http://dhilipsiva.com/webapp-checklist/) presents
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good practices that developers building and [deploying](/deployment.html)
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‎content/pages/04-web-development/01-web-frameworks.markdown‎

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[Talk Python to Me had a podcast episode](https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/149/4-python-web-frameworks-compared)
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with a detailed comparison of the [Django](/django.html),
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[Flask](/flask.html), Tornado and [Pyramid](/pyramid.html) frameworks.
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"[What is a web framework and how does it compare to LAMP?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4507506/what-is-a-web-framework-how-does-it-compare-with-lamp)"
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* Another great series that digs behind the web framework magic is
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"Web Application from Scratch". The four parts are:
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* [part 1: handling HTTP requests and responses](https://defn.io/2018/02/25/web-app-from-scratch-01/)
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* [part 2: abstracting Requests, Responses and Servers](https://defn.io/2018/03/04/web-app-from-scratch-02/)
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* [part 3: request handlers and middleware](https://defn.io/2018/03/20/web-app-from-scratch-03/)
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* [part 4: abstracting applications](https://defn.io/2018/05/12/web-app-from-scratch-04/)
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* [Not Your Father’s Python: Amazing Powerful Frameworks](https://blog.signifai.io/not-your-fathers-python-amazing-powerful-frameworks/)
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covers the rise of web frameworks, such as [Sanic](/sanic.html), that
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* [Turbogears and the future of Python web frameworks](https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/35/turbogears-and-the-future-of-python-web-frameworks)
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meta: Webhooks are user-defined HTTP callbacks that allow interactions between otherwise independent web applications.
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* [Should you build a webhooks API?](https://brandur.org/webhooks)
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