Enter Django-watson, a library for a smart search experience without relying on ElasticSearch or equivalent For many types of web applications like e-commerce platforms, having a fast and reliable search experience is crucial to gaining traction or retaining customers. Today, the common solution to this issue is using ElasticSearch, Algolia…

There are many situations where we want to retry specific operations in case of errors. This is often the case in distributed systems (calling an external API, saving data in a remote data store, etc…). Here, I will present a nice Python library to do that. Installation The library is called…

With the advent of asynchronous in Python, I refer to asyncio, we sometimes find ourselves in situations where we would like to use an asynchronous library in an existing synchronous program. Except that coroutines are not made to work in the synchronous world. …

The single folder application Recently, I faced an issue of package name clashing between a private library we developed in my company and a Django application I was developing. This made me rethink how to organize a Django project. Default organization If you follow the official Django tutorial, you will end up…

Imagine this scenario, you have created a Todo API and you return this payload when requesting a single todo. { "created_at": "2023-08-27T17:31:14.355813", "done": False, "id": "70592516-24d5-4582-8d80-54b2c70b5ab1", "metadata": { "foo": "bar", "text": "bla bla" }, "name": "Learn Python", "updated_at": None } How will you test this payload? …

commitizen at your rescue! When several people are working together on a project, it is important that communication and documentation are well established. Git commit messages are a reflection of these two aspects. …

You may have wondered like me how some command line interfaces like linters as Ruff or web servers like uvicorn watch files in real-time and react to changes. In this article, I will show you how to implement such a feature using the watchfiles library. It will also be an…

An alternative to Postman There are excellent solutions that exist to test web applications and APIs. To name just a few: Selenium, Playwright, Postman, and Hoppscotch. They work well, if you are satisfied with that, you may not need to read the rest of this article. But if you are…

Create robust and maintainable projects using the right tools After 9 years of Python development, I tested different ways to install Python and configure my projects. …