Code Patterns

• What to do when a DB transaction fails? Retry them ♻️

  Jan 12, 2025• Building Blocks collection Database Code Patterns

  What do a good portion of database transactions do? They fail. But this is hardly...

• 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...

• 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...

• How to force encourage developers to fix Python warnings for deprecated features

  Dec 23, 2024• Opinion People Code Patterns

  Our code is so interdependent! Adding dependencies to projects is just how code is done....

• Quick and easy: Add Postgres advisory locks to your Python code

  Dec 17, 2024• Database Code Patterns

  When you need it: when you want to lock the DB, but don’t have the...

• Programming patterns: 2 counters in a loop

  Dec 28, 2021• Code Patterns

  Here’s the problem: I have 1 timeline, but 2 types of events appear on this...

• Celery task retry guide

  Oct 29, 2020• Celery Code Patterns

  Celery never retries your tasks, unless you tell it to. Here is how you can...

• Cheat Sheet of Python Mock

  Jun 1, 2020• Code Patterns

  I always wanted to have this. The cool part of me, of course, wanted me...

• Structuring old Python code

  Sep 1, 2019• Code Patterns Software Design Principles Code Style

  Every project inevitably gravitates towards messy code. As long as you are adding features to...

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