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  1. Prevent accidental HTTP requests to 3rd party services in Python tests

    The world is full of web services which interact with each other via HTTP(S) requests and responses. Python is one of the most loved technologies when it comes to fetching data from web, e.g. requests is downloaded close to 70 million (!) times per month from PyPI. If you…
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  2. Best practices in code reviews - key to healthy and efficient software development

    Code reviews, the last resort after automated checks, and the best mechanism for learning for both parties: the person whose code is being reviewed and the reviewers. This post reveals the best practices for code reviews in the context of professional commercial software development. The practices listed here are based…

  3. Sneak peek at Python 3.8

    Python 3.8 release is scheduled for November this year (2019). The first beta release - no new features after this one - got out a while ago. I decided to have a look at what's coming and played around with some of the new features which seemed interesting. ➜ ~ python…
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  4. From embedded to full-stack web developer

    Embedded and web development, they are like two different worlds. Two different worlds also means two distinct sets of practitioners. As the nature of requirements and constraints is different for those two, the mindset of solution designers and developers differs greatly (or at least it should). In this post I'll…
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  5. Pre-commit is awesome

    Long story short, pre-commit is great! Although this is a Python oriented blog and pre-commit happens to be written in Python, pre-commit is basically language independent. If you use git as VCS (who doesn't these days?), keep reading.  I'll go though part of its awesomeness here with a Pythonic use…
    on Tooling

  6. Multiple heads in alembic migrations - what to do

    You are working on a shiny Flask app which relies on SQLAlchemy for ORM and utilizes Alembic for database schema migrationsThere are multiple contributors in the projectEvery now and then the alembic upgrade command fails to something like "... multiple head revisions ..."Sounds familiar? Keep reading. How do we end up…
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