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AWS launched a physically separate cloud infrastructure in Europe with EU-only governance, zero US dependencies, and over 90 services. Here is what organizations in healthcare, finance, and government need to know about the sovereign cloud and how to evaluate it for their compliance strategy.

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Git Flow Releases with ­­release-it

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A thorough code audit goes beyond automated scanners. Here is how we evaluate security, architecture, maintainability, compliance, and what you can expect when you work with us.

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February 11, 2025 • Frank Valcarcel

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Data Privacy in Django: Frank at Djangocon 2018
November 9, 2018

Data Privacy in Django: Frank at Djangocon 2018

Frank presents at Djangocon in San Diego. His talk, on pseudonymization. was titled "Pseu, Pseu, Pseudio. Pseudonymization in Django".
Data Pseudonymization in Django
September 13, 2018

Data Pseudonymization in Django

This post outlines a few different ways to achieve data pseudonymization for user privacy, security, and compliance with regulations like GDPR using the Django framework.

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