How to use AWS SSM Parameter Store easily in Python

AWS just announced a new service AWS Secret Manager in SF Dev Summit (I was there at the announcement 😇), which is a cool service to help you to manage and rotate your secrets securely.

Python: Timezone and Daylight savings

Timezone is a hard problem. DST is even a harder problem. I found myself walking into problems and problems when I started using datetime in Python properly. So I decide to write a blog to share my experience.

“Naive” and “Aware”

AWS: Correct permission to start an EC2 instance with encrypted EBS

AWS has a very flexible permission system using IAM policies. But sometime it is also complicated to get the access control right. Yesterday, I worked on a IAM policy to allow an instance start / stop another…