Python

Writing code can be tough and writing clean code can be even more difficult some times. When you get on a roll and put together highly functional and imaginative code, it might not always look the greatest. Also, when crunched for time, it can be very difficult to go back over the code and attempt to make it as pretty as possible. You might also need to make sure other files used by your code are also formatted properly. Next, add in multiple developers, and you’ve got yourself something that can grow uglier over time. Much of these issues can be addressed by using <a href="https://pre-commit.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">pre-commit</a> hooks in your Python code’s github repo. ...

I had to figure out how to get logs from CloudWatch into S3. This task is actually pretty easy because AWS provides a very nice tutorial, Exporting log data to Amazon S3, that explains how to do this either via Console or CLI. My problem is that I needed to do this daily so automating this task was my next struggle. The AWS tutorial provides details on setting up S3 and IAM for this solution so I won’t cover that here. I also found a great article by Omar Dulaimi that was the basis for my code (why completely reinvent the wheel?). With both of these laying the ground work, I got right to putting this together. ...