New behavior when exiting activerecord transactions with return in Rails 7
Recently, I decided to upgrade one of my projects from Rails 6.0 to 7.0. After going through the changelogs of each release between 6.0 and 7.0 and through t...
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Recently, I was going through the documentation and codebase of a python package (specifically kafka-python) and was curious about how cleaning up resources ...
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Recently, I was puzzled with an issue while working on one of my projects. In an endpoint I was building, I had to delete an existing record of a table and c...
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There are some tools that are quite essentials for web applications. When working on the back end side of your application, you’ll most probably need to use ...
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Send logs to logz.io from your Flask application
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Dependency injection in python
Dependency injection is a technique that “injects”/passes dependencies between objects in a way that leads to code that is easier to test and maintain.