Refactoring - book review

Posted on 15 October 2022 in Books • Tagged with book, review, programming, refactoring, Martin Fowler, Kent Beck • 4 min read

"Refactoring" book front cover

Refactoring is a book by Martin Fowler about what a fellow developer might describe as "a process of improving the code quality."

I highly recommend this book to software professionals who want to improve and formalise their refactoring skills.


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Hexagonal architecture and Python - Part II: Domain, Application Services, Ports and Adapters

Posted on 18 September 2022 in Articles • Tagged with architecture, DDD, dependency injection, hexagonal architecture, programming, python • 10 min read

Python logo in a hexagon with Roman II literal

Welcome to the second part of the article series, which cover principles of Hexagonal architecture, Dependency Injection, Domain-Driven Design and applies these all to Python and Django application design.


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Good practices: Avoiding the use of test inputs in assertions

Posted on 10 November 2021 in Articles • Tagged with good practices, programming, python, testing, unit tests • 2 min read

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It might be very convenient to use the same fixtures in test setup and assertions. This practice though is not as good as it looks like at first glance.


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Hexagonal architecture and Python - Part I: Dependency Injection and componential architecture

Posted on 30 October 2021 in Articles • Tagged with architecture, DDD, dependency injection, hexagonal architecture, programming, python • 8 min read

Python logo in a hexagon

Welcome to articles series which cover the principles of Hexagonal architecture, talks of Dependency Injection, and its usage in these to Python and Django application design.


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Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders - book review

Posted on 22 October 2021 in Books • Tagged with book, leadership • 4 min read

Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders book cover

"Turn The Ship Around!" is an exceptional book. It narrates a story of a poor-performing submarine becoming the best in a short period of time. It teaches the mechanisms of such transformation which involve the leader and the team alike.


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Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps - book review

Posted on 23 June 2021 in Books • Tagged with book, software development, accelerate • 3 min read

Accelerate book cover

Are you familiar with the gut feeling that the software development practices around you could be better? What if I told you that there is a solid scientific study on practices of low and high performing technology organizations?


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Alarms and dashboards

Posted on 04 June 2021 in Articles • Tagged with rants, alarm, dashboard, DevOps, errors • 2 min read

Ranting about alarms and dashboards


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Concrete Settings: a new way to manage configurations in Python projects

Posted on 11 July 2020 in Articles • Tagged with programming, library, python, concrete settings • 5 min read

After two years of developing a hobby project, I am proud to announce Concrete Settings - a new configuration management library for Python projects.

Concrete Settings was born as an effort to improve configuration handling in a huge decade-old Django application with exceedingly bloated settings.py. Remember that settings.py starts …


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Is classical music performed too fast?

Posted on 25 April 2018 in Articles • Tagged with music, classical • 2 min read

Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger... wait - that is Daft Punk. Though classical music seems to follow.


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Blogging with Pelican

Posted on 25 April 2017 in Articles • Tagged with blogging, pelican, python • 2 min read

Pelican is a perfect blogging platform for programmers and computer geeks. My blog has been powered by Pelican for three years and it has been a pleasant experience. If you are looking forward to start a blog, or just thinking of changing a platform, why not give it a try?


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