Using Python’s colorsys module to generate primary and pastel colors for use in graphs, pipelines, and notifications — This article covers some recent work where generated Slack messages needed some extra color differentiation. I had just wrapped up some hooks to send a Slack message to a sales notification channel whenever a customer signed up or changed their subscription level. Initially I opted to use company themed yellow…

Using serialized objects to sum together dimensioned data — Recently I was given the professional opportunity to store a ton of UI events in AWS Timestream. Timestream is an efficient and highly performant time series database that is metric-focused. I opted to use it to store information about user movement throughout our application in order to identify how many…

As we move to document models in our databases it is important to have good tools allowing us to adequately filter out unnecessary and sensitive information. For this article we will be using the flatten-dict library available at https://github.com/ianlini/flatten-dict and installable via pip install flatten-dict. Example document that needs to…

Using getattr(…) to find event handlers using constructed names — In the telephony industry I do a lot of work with event systems and I often end up writing a lot of if statements to help create a decision tree of sorts. Often I only want to know about the first or second event that occurs. For example a ringing…