Building Blocks Collection

This is more of a personal collection of “thingies” that I had to build a couple of times already. Enough with the repetition!

Building Blocks Collection

What to do when a DB transaction fails? Retry it ♻️

Jan 12, 2025• Building Blocks Collection Database Code Patterns
What do a good portion of database transactions do? They fail. But this is hardly...
Building Blocks Collection

Build me a global user_id / request_id / tenant_id

Jan 3, 2025• Building Blocks Collection Code Patterns
Sometimes you want to have a globally accessible function like get_current_user() that somehow magically stores...
Building Blocks Collection

How do I measure the execution time of Celery tasks?

Jan 2, 2025• Building Blocks Collection Celery
The next item in my collection of “Aren’t we all just constantly re-creating the same...
Building Blocks Collection

Isolate code blocks from each other?

Jan 1, 2025• Building Blocks Collection Code Patterns Code Style
Aren’t we all just constantly re-creating the same bits of code? This goes beyond boilerplate...

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