This is a short post describing how to debug Flask apps with the ever-useful rpdb, along with a few gotchas to be careful of. Our workhorse web backend is Flask+uWSGI, running on standalone EC2 instances. At the same time we rely on Twisted for several backend services. On occasion a Thinkster might need to debug one of these services on one of the EC2 instances. Due to our instance isolation strategy, it’s tricky to get fancy remote debugging running, such as VS Code’s Remote Debugging. ...
