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Validating OpenAPI Specs in a CI/CD Pipeline: A Guide to Ensuring API Quality
An API should operate as intended. This requires both an expressed intent and verification that, indeed, the API fulfills this intent.
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Test-Drive Your API with a Validated OpenAPI Spec
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JSON Logging with uWSGI
Setting up JSON logging for a production Django app requires the following steps: Configure JSON logging from the Django app Configure JSON logging from the application server (for example, uWSGI) In the last article I covered how to configure JSON...
Nov 26, 202210 min read
JSON Logging with Django
What is observability? Improving an application's observability can be one of the most empowering endeavors as an engineer. Imagine tiptoeing across a messy child's room in the middle of the night with the goal of not stepping on a Lego. Now imagine ...
Nov 19, 20227 min read
Generate API Docs for Django with GitHub Actions
In the last article I covered how to Host API Docs in Django. To recap, this included the following: Creating an OpenAPI spec Generating API docs with the redoc-cli Exposing docs in Django at a path of our choice Requiring authentication to acces...
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Host API Docs in Django
Generate API docs from an OpenAPI spec and host them in Django
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GitHub Action for Rendering JSON
Recently been doing a fair bit of work in GitHub Actions, our chosen tool for CI at Patient Pattern. I've written a few event-based workflows, reusable workflows, manually-triggered workflows, and docker container actions. The next step I'd like to t...
Oct 5, 20222 min read
Two tips for more discoverable Python
When working on a new codebase, a learning curve is inevitable. However, steepness greatly varies. Here are two dead-simple ways to write discoverable Python code that smoothens this curve. Type hint. Always. Let's consider the following example func...
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