Articles tagged with "Python"
In my latest article for RealPython I cover some exotic migration operations, many of the built-in migration CLI commands and demonstrate important migrations concepts such as reversible migrations, migration plans and introspection.
It can be very challenging to test a system that rely heavily on a third party service such as Twilio. In this article, I show how to organize your code in a way that would isolate your bushiness logic and make it easier for you to test it separately.
One of the most challenging aspects of writing good tests is maintaining test fixtures. Good test fixtures motivate developers to write better tests, and bad fixtures can cripple a system to a point where developers fear and avoid them all together. The article covers everything from setting up Pytest for a Django project, creating test fixtures and how to create dependency between fixtures.
How we developed a Markdown extension to manage content in Django sites.
Last year my team and I worked on a very challenging IVR system. After almost a year in production and thousands of processed transactions, I teamed up with the great people over at the Twilio blog to write an introductory tutorial for developing IVR systems using Django and Twilio IVR.
Inspired by an actual incident we had in one of our systems caused by an "Export to Excel" functionality implemented in Python, we go through the process of identifying the problem, experimenting and benchmarking different solutions.
Explore the best way to import messy data from remote source into PostgreSQL using Python and Psycopg2. The data is big, fetched from a remote source, and needs to be cleaned and transformed.
When a developer chooses Python, Django, or Django Rest Framework, it's usually not because of its blazing fast performance. All of this doesn't mean performance is not important. As this story taught us, major performance boosts can be gained with just a little attention, and a few small changes.
We had a large codebase and a lot of tests. Unfortunately, a lot of our tests were a relic from when we were using fixtures extensively. In this article, we describe a different approach that reduced the number of fixtures we maintain.
Communication with external services is an integral part of any modern system. Whether it's a payment service, authentication, analytics or an internal one - systems need to talk to each other. In this short article we are going to implement a module for communicating with a made-up payment gateway, step by step.