If you have been following my blog, you may have noticed a pattern; I write a lot about testing software. Recently, I picked up a book on Building Micro Services, where I came across a chapter on testing micro services. This post is about mocking your pyt... (more…)

This is a story about how very difficult it is to build concurrent programs. It’s also a story about a bug in Python’s Queue class, a class which happens to be the easiest way to make concurrency simple in Python. This is not a happy story: this is a trag... (more…)

Today we’re going to take a bit of a detour from web development and head more towards the realm of software development, while dunking our toes into the world of intrigue that is cryptography and information security. I used a lot of buzzwords there but ... (more…)

Improve your Python skills with these 30 Python best practices, tips, and tricks. (more…)

Python is one of the most popular programming languages used today and it has been around for more t... (more…)