Month summary — July 2024

… here some design patterns that I believe are generic enough to be useful for just about anyone in the API design process.

In this article, we’ll take a high-level overview of the system’s architecture, and then you could explore specific areas in more depth if needed.

I finally have the feeling that I’m a decent programmer, so I thought it would be fun to write some advice with the idea of “what would have gotten me to this point faster?” I’m not claiming this is great advice for everyone, just that it would have been good advice for me.

The pgautoupgrade Docker image is designed to handle the upgrade process seamlessly.

Shoutout to Josh Thomas for help on this recipe since we both iterated on this for several projects.

This type of file is a short piece of documentation that typically provides an overview of a project, including instructions on installing, using, and contributing to the project. README files are especially handy for open-source Python projects.

How to minimize user frustration in Antarctica.

It’s frustrating to have done something really important and later realize that you didn’t get rewarded for it just because the people making the decision didn’t understand or remember what you did.

My exact process for achieving my goals and getting sh*t done.

Please enjoy this updated survey on the field of coding assistant platforms!

HTB is the leading Cybersecurity Performance Center for advanced frontline teams to aspiring security professionals & students.

With this hands-on guide, Harry Percival and Bob Gregory from MADE.com introduce proven architectural design patterns to help Python developers manage application complexity—and get the most value out of their test suites.

When iterating on code, it’s easy to make a model change and forget to update the migrations accordingly. If you don’t have any protection, you might even deploy code that crashes due to out-of-date migrations!

Every product in the Google Cloud family described in 4 or less words

Today, we’re shining a spotlight on some of these “invisible” GKE advancements, particularly in the realm of infrastructure autoscaling.

This document is intended for cloud and database administrators who want to plan, implement, and validate a database migration project.