Property testing with hypothesis
Testing is a huge field and takes a significant amount of time to master. There are several types of tests, like unit, functional, integration, end-to-end (e...
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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.
Queues in python
Queues are a really useful data structure that are being frequently used both in application code and are also utilized by libraries. In this post, we’ll see...
Memoization in python
Memoization is loosely defined as an optimization technique that is usually applied on functions that are quite expensive to run.
SOLID principles: Single responsibility
SOLID is a set of principles that lead to cleaner, more maintenable and extensible code. The first principle is the Single Responsibility Principle or SRP.
Quick tip: Generating unique IDs in python
There are several cases where we need to generate a unique identifier in our applications. One way to do it is to roll your own implementation, usually rando...
Parsing a mini query language with python and pyparsing
Recently, I had to parse an SQL-like statement coming in as a query parameter for an python API endpoint. This mini query language had to support AND, OR and...
Functional programming with Javascript
In the past few years, functional programming’s popularity has increased and new languages (like elixir or scala) that embrace it have been created. But what...
Encryption the easy way with lockbox gem
There are several occasions where we need to encrypt some data, whether they are fields in a database or files. In some cases, encryption is needed in order ...
Implementing a circuit breaker in go
Recently I read about the circuit breaker pattern and I believe it is an interesting pattern with many use cases in today’s microservices-centric universe :)