Python is a well-known dynamic, interpreted, and object-oriented high-level programming language. It is an easy-to-learn and well-optimized language which ultimately reduces software development and maintenance costs. Moreover, it comes with many modules and packages which facilitate software modularity and code reuse. Python is very popular among beginners and experienced developers because of its very easy-to-learn syntax. In this article we’ll cover how to install Python 3 development environment for Ubuntu Linux. Python can be used for web and back-end development, cloud automation, data science, and many other things. You must be logged in as a root or have sudo access (more information about sudo is available in our article How to allow the user to use sudo in Ubuntu Linux) on your system to install/upgrade Python on Ubuntu.

Xrdp is a free and open-source alternative to the Microsoft RDP server that allows non-Windows operating systems. It delivers an entirely operational RDP-well-matched remote desktop experience. RDP will enable you to log into a remote machine and create actual desktop sessions in the same way you would on a local device. Xrdp integrates parts of the RDP and X Windows systems to transmit the visuals and controls between client and system. This article will cover how to set up a remote desktop experience using Xrdp on Ubuntu Linux. In the Ubuntu Software Center, you may choose between a range of desktop environments. Gnome is the default environment for the recent Ubuntu versions. But if you’d like to install a desktop environment, this part of the article is exactly for you.

As you probably already know, the terminal provides tech professionals a lot of flexibility when it comes to managing Linux operating systems. But what if you’re not a tech professional and still have a need to effectively manage several Linux servers? Well, we have a solution for you! …

The LAMP stack is a well-known and widely used web-development stack whose primary goal is to help you to build an open source web hosting environment. This stack consists of the following components: Linux (base operating system), Apache (web server), MySQL (relational database) and PHP (multi-platform scripting language). And here’s…

What is AWS Step Functions AWS Step Functions is an orchestration service that allows you to use AWS Lambda functions and other AWS services to build and automate business-critical workflows. It allows you to describe your processes as a series of event-driven steps each of which is powered by AWS Lambda or other supported AWS services and responsible for its own part of the process. Every workflow is described in JSON-like syntax.

In this blog post, we will create an awesome React TypeScript App hosted in an S3 static website bucket. For that we will use AWS CDK and Projen. But first I will explain what AWS CDK and Projen are and why I strongly recommend using Projen for AWS CDK…

When transferring files over the network, it’s more preferable to transfer a single file (usually .gz or .tar.gz archive). Such an approach allows minimizing disk IO operations and speed up the file transmission process. A single file of 1GiB in size will be transferred faster than 1024 files of 1MiB…

From my personal experience, many companies rely on Jenkins and Terraform while automating their cloud infrastructure. There’s no problem if you’d like to deploy something from Jenkins to the cloud, but what to do, if you want to call Jenkins job from to deploy a Terraform module as a Service…

One of the most common questions I’m facing is “How I can backup my EC2 instance?”. On Jan 16, 2019, AWS released their native service, which allows you to solve that particular problem with ease. In this article, I’ll cover on-demand and scheduled backup configuration for your EC2 instance and recovery process using AWS Backup. What is AWS Backup AWS Backup is a fully managed backup service that makes it easy to centralize and automate the backup of data across AWS services in the cloud as well as on-premises.