Managing Your Open edX Backend With Terraform
Scaling an Open edX platform can become unwieldy. Let’s take a look at how Terraform can help you maintain control of everything inside your AWS account
April 2022
Running Open edX At Scale With Kubernetes
The rapid adoption of Tutor as a build and deployment solution for Open edX has also opened the door to using Kubernetes. But what is Kubernetes and what problem does it solve for an Open edX platform? Well, plenty! Read on to see what, why, and how you can begin
Continuous Integration (CI) With Tutor Open edX – Part I
Tutor, Github Actions and AWS Elastic Container Registry are a powerful trio of tools for creating an automated CI process to build and register your custom Open edX Docker image, and automating the entire process is easy.
Continuous Integration (CI) With Tutor Open edX – Part II
Tutor provides a powerful and easy to use set of tools for advanced configuration of your Open edX installation. Lets take a closer look at how you can automate your entire Open edX deployment process using Github Actions workflows.
January 2022
Adding React To A Django Project
Learn the right way to combine Django and ReactJS. This article includes links to a public repository with a fully documented, fully-functional reference project that you can setup in less than an hour and run in your local dev environment using Docker.
November 2021
Customizing Service Workers in ReactJS Progressive Web Apps with Google Workbox
Learn how to customize Google Workbox’s default behavior for a service worker in your React app. This articles explains how to modify the behavior of the service worker life cycle, enabling fully automated updates of your app in the background. Includes a bonus section with a React Bootstrap component alert
October 2021
Developer’s Guide to Opaque Keys
Open edX courseware leverages two powerful technologies for locating and interacting with course content, both of which were developed internally. Opaque Keys describe the location of course content both in terms of browser access via url as well as internally in the application source code. XBlocks generically describe individual units