Originally posted on my blog site No matter what kind of software you’re developing, you most definitely leverage logging to some extent, probably every single day. You write a lot of logs, you read tons of them too, it is the most basic observability tool we have. Not all logs are equal / Should you even log it? There are many…

December is here, and the coding puzzles of Advent Of Code are back. In case it is your first time hearing about this Advent Of code is an Advent calendar of small programming puzzles for a variety of skill sets and skill levels that can be solved in any programming…

Lessons Learned, Stats, and Insights From 2 Years & 50 Published Stories — Celebrating my 50th published story on Medium this week, I wanted to share with you what I have learned from writing here for the last two years. I started out on Aug 2020 completely from scratch (No previous audience). I wasn’t consistent throughout all this time; some months, I haven’t…

Modularity is a must for good software design. It helps with extensibility, readability, maintainability, and more. It certainly isn’t easy to make your code modular, but what exactly is modularity, and how do we measure it? Definition Modularity describes a logical grouping of related code, which could be a group of…

If you are a software engineer, you probably know how important it is to build a solid reputation. If you want to rise up the organizational ladder in your job, it is absolutely critical. …

Open Source Content Aggregator with Python — Introduction A content aggregator is simply an application that gathers content from across the web in order to allow the user a consolidated way of consuming content. …

What are they & why you should care — Software architectural patterns have a significant role in the scaleability of every product. In this article, we will cover 5 of these patterns and discuss their importance as a part of the development lifecycle. Why? Planning in advance and adhering to a pattern or a style gives the developer a better…

A step-by-step guide to creating a full API with a database — Introduction FastAPI is a relatively new and trending Python web framework for building APIs. FastAPI’s tag line includes its benefits over other popular web frameworks such as Flask and Django — “high performance, easy to learn, fast to code”. Why FastAPI is faster? One of the main reasons FastAPI is faster…

My First Open Source CLI Project — This post was first published on my blog with the generic placeholder name of etCodes — it’s free to read (no paywalls) and far more readable. Introduction A content aggregator is simply an application that gathers content from across the web in order to allow the user a consolidated way of…