A look at the new Python 3.11 features — According to the Python Software Foundation (PSF), Python 3.11 is in it’s 7th alpha revision and is planned to be released in October 2022. What changes are included for the upcoming version? Prolog To evaluate the differences between version 3.10 and 3.11, I’ve set up 2 docker containers. First container for…

Manage your databases like a boss! — Integrating relational databases into our code could be clunky, but it can be easier with ORM. In this article, I’ll introduce you all to a cutting-edge Python ORM package called tortoise ORM and give a hands-on example. Why ORM? Object relational mapping maps relational database table structures into objects. This allows us…

Make your docker environment super awesome! — Docker introduced docker-extensions in the last dockerCon. It is currently a beta feature, and it looks like it can bring up incredible revelations to the docker ecosystem as well as enhance developer experience and boost productivity. Let’s explore this promising new feature. Preconditions First, you must install version 4.8 higher of…

Add more validity to your tests — Unit tests are our first line of defense against regressive code changes. If your Python code involves the usage of AWS resources, you might find this article useful for your testing coverage. Resource Optimism Resource optimism is a test smell that occurs when a test case makes an optimistic assumption about an…

Strategies to have a better-organized codebase — Well organized repo leads to a well-organized code and a better developer experience. In this article, I’ll show you 2 use-cases of pre-commit to maintain a better repository. Introducing pre-commit? Pre-commit is a python based tool that allows you to ‘hook’ into your git repository and trigger a simple code whenever changes…

Detect performance problems early on and learn how to write better-performing code on the way — In contemporary software development, performance takes a front sit, both in the testing efforts but also in the development process it self. In this article I’ll demonstrate how you can easily integrate performance linting into your python application development and come up with a better code. Performance Engineering

Customize static Python code analysis for your business-specific goals — Static code analysis and linting are foundational for software development's success. One of the most commonly used static code analyzers for python is pylint In this article, I’ll show you how easy it is to extend Pylint using it’s built-in plugins architecture. What is static code analysis? Static code analysis is an automated attempt to…

A look at lighthouse and playwright — As applications are getting more complex and testing efforts is over-extended, automating our testing pipelines is paramount. In this article, I’ll demonstrate how you can use 2 awesome tools to quickly cover multiple test realms with ease. Introducing Googles’ lighthouse Googles’ lighthouse is an open-source website quality assessment tool. It’s based on googles’ web-vitals…

Parsing command line arguments is a common task, lets see how we can use JCommander to get it done nice and tidy. — Parsing command line naively Lets take a look at typical java main method: I’m using maven, so my POM file is: My pom includes the maven assembly plugin with reference to the public static main method, this will create a self contained jar file with all dependencies that I can run with java runtime.