Explicit is Better than Implicit - Part 2: Behaviors
“Explicit is better than implicit” is one of my favorite lines from the Zen of Python. In essence, this guiding principle encourages clarity in code by favor...
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Explicit is Better than Implicit - Part 1: Intentions
“Explicit is better than implicit” is one of my favorite lines from the Zen of Python. In essence, this guiding principle encourages clarity in code by favor...
Code Coverage: Misusage and Proper Usage
TL;DRs Blindly aiming for high coverage can degrade test quality as developers may prioritize increasing coverage metrics over writing meaningful, effecti...
Exposing Applications Running in EKS Cluster for External Access
To expose applications running in a Kubernetes cluster in the cloud, you need an additional component to facilitate external access. For clusters in AWS, AWS...
Building Faceted Search using Elasticsearch
Faceted search Faceted search is a type of search that enables users to narrow down search results by applying multiple filters based on predefined facets, w...
Book Review: Code Simplicity by Max Kanat-Alexander
Code Simplicity by Max Kanat-Alexander is an ambitious effort to define a set of principles, rules, and laws for software development. In my opinion, this is...
Dependency Injection and Dependency Inversion
Dependency injection and dependency inversion are two terms that often come together but serve distinct meanings and purposes.
Preventing Flaky Tests and Brittle Tests
Flaky tests and brittle tests are two common pitfalls that make our tests unreliable and hard to maintain. In this post, I will illustrate these concepts wit...
Provision an Amazon EKS cluster with AWS CDK
Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) is a fully managed Kubernetes service that simplifies building, securing, operating, and maintaining Kubernetes clust...
Memory Profiling CPython Applications with Memray
Memory management in modern programming languages is well-abstracted away from programmers. We do not have direct control over how our programs allocate and ...