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Using Terraform with GitHub Actions

7 minute read

GitHub Actions is a powerful tool that allows software developers to automate almost everything inside a GitHub repository. From running tests to linting yo...

Linux Text Processing Command

24 minute read

Text processing in Linux involves manipulating text data to extract meaningful information or to transform it into a desired output. This is particularly us...

Error Handling in Python

15 minute read

Error handling is a critical aspect of programming, and it involves detecting and resolving errors that occur during program execution. Python is a high-lev...

Load Testing Backend Services Using K6

16 minute read

When it comes to software applications, ensuring your app works as expected is not enough. Users generally expect applications to work 24/7 – with minimal d...

Getting Started With PyTest Fixtures

20 minute read

In software development, testing is an essential part of the development process. Tests help to ensure that the code works as expected and help catch bugs e...

Working With Zip Files in Go

11 minute read

As a programming language, Go is often used to build a variety of applications, both small and large. During the development process, you may encounter task...

Caching Dependencies on GitHub Actions

10 minute read

GitHub Actions is a continuous integration, continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform that allows you to build, test, and deploy your code with simple YAML-based...

10 Advanced Git Commands

12 minute read

For many developers, truly harnessing the power of Git can be a daunting task. Git can seem intimidating when you first start using it. This is one of the r...

Securing Kubernetes Secrets Effectively

17 minute read

Storing application passwords, usernames, authentication tokens, and SSH keys as secret objects when building in Kubernetes is safer than hard coding sensit...

How to Use Django Template Filters

18 minute read

Django is a powerful Python web framework loaded with many useful built-in features that make building complex web-focused products a lot easier; one such f...

Customizing the Django Admin

17 minute read

The Django framework comes with an admin site which is a quick, model-centric interface that Django creates by reading metadata from your models. The interf...

What Are Python Data Classes?

16 minute read

In Python, classes let you group data and behavior together by defining attributes and methods, respectively. Typically, a class contains both attributes an...

Introduction to Netlify Cloud Functions

10 minute read

When building backend applications, we often have to add features that are not supported by the current stack or would slow down our applications. A possibl...

AWS S3 Backup and Recovery With Restic

11 minute read

In today’s digital age, data is one of the most valuable assets for individuals and organizations alike. Losing data can have a significant impact on produc...

API Testing Using Playwright With Python

12 minute read

Playwright is a popular end-to-end testing framework that Microsoft backs. With support for popular programming languages, such as Javascript, Typescript, P...

An Introduction to Kubernetes Secrets

16 minute read

Generally, applications contain some sensitive data, like authentication tokens, passwords, usernames, and more. As you build in Kubernetes, some of these m...

Understanding Kubernetes Operators

17 minute read

When you opt to use Kubernetes for application deployment, out of the box, it provides a wide range of automation features that make it easy to deploy and m...

Advanced MongoDB Features with PyMongo

19 minute read

MongoDB is a powerful and flexible NoSQL database that has become increasingly popular in recent years due to its ability to handle large amounts of data an...

Understanding Django Signals

15 minute read

In Django, signals allow certain senders to inform a set of receivers that specific actions have occurred. Django signals are used to send and receive speci...

Go with the Gin Framework

8 minute read

Go is increasing in popularity for many reasons, from speed to ease of use and so much more. The Go standard library has most of the functionalities you’ll ...

PostgreSQL in Python Using Psycopg2

18 minute read

Are you a Python programmer learning to work with PostgreSQL? If so, this tutorial on psycopg2, the PostgreSQL connector for Python, is for you. You can con...

A Practical Guide To Linux Echo Command

11 minute read

Linux is one of the most popular operating systems. It has a powerful command-line interface that allows various commands to be passed as instructions to be...

Building Your JavaScript Monorepo

7 minute read

Many engineers and organizations are beginning to adopt a monorepo architecture for their JavaScript projects, where a single repository contains multiple p...

How to Set Up a TypeScript Monorepo

14 minute read

In recent years, monorepos have become a trending topic in the IT community. When using a monorepo, an organization stores all its projects in the same repo...

How to Install and Run CMake on Windows

7 minute read

CMake is an open source multiplatform tool that you can use to help with build automation, testing, packaging, and the installation of software. One of the ...

An Introduction to Linux Capabilities

13 minute read

In Linux, capabilities are a way to assign specific privileges to a running process. They allow us to have more fine-grained control over the privileges tha...

How to get started with PyMongo

14 minute read

In this article, you will learn about MongoDB and how to use it with Python. Specifically, you will learn how to set up a remote MongoDB database using a to...

Kubernetes GitOps with FluxCD

15 minute read

Kubernetes has become the go-to tool for application deployment. However, it does not offer features for continuous integration and delivery. Continuous del...

How to Work with YAML in Python

10 minute read

If you’ve ever worked with Docker or Kubernetes, you’ll have likely used YAML files. From configuring an application’s services in Docker to defining Kubern...

CMake vs. Make: What’s the Difference?

12 minute read

Creating software isn’t only about writing code; you need to build all the source code to get a usable software artifact. This build process can be done man...

Building and Running an NVIDIA Container

10 minute read

NVIDIA Container Runtime allows containerized applications to access your host’s GPU hardware. It facilitates the containerization of systems that would oth...

When to Use Docker Compose vs. Kubernetes

8 minute read

As a developer, you’ll have likely heard about Docker Compose and Kubernetes–two of the most popular container orchestration tools on the market. If you’re ...

Structural Pattern Matching in Python

21 minute read

Structural Pattern Matching is a new feature introduced in Python 3.10 in the PEP 634 specification. The feature verifies if the value of an expression, cal...

Helm: The Kubernetes Package Manager

12 minute read

For production and hybrid cloud environments, manual deployments with Kubernetes are time consuming and non reusable. As you deploy different applications w...

Using Canary Deployments in Kubernetes

8 minute read

Has a seemingly harmless update ever caused your application to fail in production? Canary deployments, like the proverbial canary in a coal mine, can help ...

How to use Docker in VS Code

7 minute read

Created by Microsoft, the Docker extension makes it easy to build, manage, and deploy containerized applications without leaving your code editor. Simply pu...

How to Use Python’s Subprocess Module

12 minute read

We’re Earthly. We make building software simpler and therefore faster. If you’re interested in a simple and containerized approach to CI that works well wit...

K3s vs K8s

12 minute read

Container orchestration tools automate container management tasks, such as scheduling, scaling, load balancing, and networking. Orchestrators have become th...

WebSocket Protocol with Django Channels

24 minute read

In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to build a real-time communication application with The Django Channels package and The WebSocket Protocol. The applicatio...

Comparison: Flux vs Argo CD

22 minute read

Since February we have been working on adopting Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies for our cell simulation platform at Turbine.ai. Part of my job enta...

Introduction to AWS Networking

14 minute read

When you first create an AWS account a lot of resources get created for you by default. For starters, you’ll get a VPC in each region. In each of those you’...

Manage dotfiles from anywhere with Git

7 minute read

Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you had to format your computer and manually reinstall all the programs you were using? Or did you change ...

How Classes and Objects Work in Python

12 minute read

If you’re a developer looking to level up your Python skills, adding OOP to your Python box can be helpful. This tutorial will help you get started with obj...

15 Essential Linux Terminal Commands

15 minute read

Linux, a powerful, free, stable, secure, and highly customizable operating system, is essential for any developer’s workflow. The Linux terminal interacts w...

Developer Tools for Kubernetes

12 minute read

When you get started on your path as a developer, you may notice from the beginning that there’s an abundance of different tools to choose from. At the same...

Cryptography & Encryption in Go

8 minute read

One of the biggest concerns for modern web developers is security. Whether your goal is protecting a user’s personal data, effectively authenticating a user...

Terraform Route53 And DNS Fun

3 minute read

In my previous article about terraform I moved my lambda and all related infrastructure to Terraform. I even tested things by destroying everything and then...

Using AWS Graviton

8 minute read

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is one of the most popular—and comprehensive—cloud service providers. It has over 200 fully-featured services on offer. There are ...

Docker Slim

7 minute read

Docker is an open containerization platform for developing, shipping, and running applications. It enables you to package your applications in isolated envi...

How to Use MongoDB with Go

11 minute read

Recently, NoSQL Databases like MongoDB, LevelDB, Redis, and others have been preferred for building and deploying applications. MongoDB is one of the most p...

S3 Terraform Backend

4 minute read

In the previous article I ported all my AWS infrastructure to Terraform. But in doing so, I was left tracking all my Terraform state in a terraform.tfstate ...

Pulumi vs Terraform

7 minute read

There once was a time when technicians manually provisioned application infrastructure. In recent years, as companies began rapidly expanding their infrastr…

Introduction to Pyscript

7 minute read

Introduction Python is widely used in so many applications, from data science to machine learning, robotics, and artificial intelligence. On the we..

Building in Kubernetes Using Tekton

9 minute read

Continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) principles offer multiple benefits to software organizations, including faster time to market, higher-qua...

Validate Your YAML (with CUE)

13 minute read

I’ve complained before about using YAML when a programming language is what’s needed. But, when you’ve got configuring to do, YAML is pretty useful. It’s so...

AWS Lambda Rest API Backend In Golang

9 minute read

Welcome back to a series on AWS Lambdas. Today I’ll be running a full REST HTTP API in a single lambda. Also, I’ll discuss why you might want to do so – the...

Guide to Kubernetes Networking

10 minute read

Kubernetes networking enables the components that make up the Kubernetes ecosystem, like containers, pods, and services, to communicate effectively with eac...

How Kubernetes Autoscaling Works

7 minute read

There are many reasons engineers look to Kubernetes when running their workloads, like support for containers and orchestration. Another major reason for ch...

How and When to Use Kubernetes Namespaces

6 minute read

When you start learning about Kubernetes, you quickly learn about the key components that you need in order to run your applications, such as pods, deployme...

Using Kubernetes Persistent Volumes

9 minute read

Kubernetes persistent volumes provide data storage for stateful applications. They abstract a storage system’s implementation from how it’s consumed by your...

Using Bash to Read Files

7 minute read

Bash (bourne again shell) scripts give you the ability to turn series of manual commands into an easily runnable and repeatable script. This can be especial...

Using Kubescape to Scan Kubernetes

7 minute read

Kubescape is a free tool that improves Kubernetes security by scanning clusters and detecting YAML files that are not compliant with security standards such...

How To Use Makefiles on Windows

7 minute read

We’re Earthly. We make building software simpler and therefore faster. This article is about make and Makefiles but if you’re interested in a different appr...

Getting Started With CMake

7 minute read

When it comes to packaging an application, there are many ways to do it. However, with languages that have been around as long as C and C++, the community h...

Earthly, Podman And Docker Compose

10 minute read

Podman is a daemon-less container engine for developing, managing, and running OCI containers on your Linux System. With podman, containers can either be ru...

Using sed for Find and Replace

13 minute read

We’re Earthly. We make building software simpler and, therefore, faster. This article is about sed and the best ways to use it. If you doing things at comma...

Exploring Docker Alternatives

8 minute read

Docker sits proudly atop its niche, with an estimated 83 percent of the container software market. Development teams use it to make deploying software faste...

Using Loops In Bash

11 minute read

Like any other programming language, Bash supports loops. The loops are used to repeatedly execute a set of commands based on some condition. Along with con...

Using Conditionals in Bash

15 minute read

Bash (bourne again shell) has been around since 1989 and owes its longevity to its usefulness and flexibility. While it’s the default login and command shel...

Running Containers on AWS Lambda

9 minute read

We’re Earthly. We make building software simpler and therefore faster. This article covers running containers in AWS Lambda, which is a great approach to pr...

gRPC Gateway

13 minute read

Welcome back. I’m an experienced developer learning Golang. Last time I moved my service from REST to gRPC, but there are times when a simple REST end-point...

Building a Monorepo in Golang

8 minute read

A repository in Go traditionally contains a single Go Module, which lends naturally to a polyrepo setup – but what if you try to build multiple Golang proj...

CircleCI with Python and Django

17 minute read

I’m currently working on a project comparing different CI/CD pipelines, trying to get a better idea of what each offers, how they run, and how much it takes...

Using MongoDB with Docker

11 minute read

We’re Earthly. We make building software simpler and therefore faster. This article covers using MongoDB in a containerized setting. If you’re interested in...

Golang gRPC Example

18 minute read

We’re Earthly. We make building software simpler and therefore faster. Earthly is open-source and written in go. So if you’re interested in a simpler way to...

Understanding Docker Volumes

9 minute read

We’re Earthly. We make building software simpler and therefore faster. This article is about container volume management. If you’re interested in a simple a...

Golang SQLite database/sql

15 minute read

We’re Earthly. We make building software simpler and therefore faster. Earthly is open-source and written in go. So if you’re interested in a simpler way to...

How to Use Docker for Your MySQL Database

9 minute read

We’re Earthly. We make building software simpler and therefore faster. This article is about data management for MySQL containers. If you’re interested in a...

Command Line JSON Client In Golang

11 minute read

I’m an experienced software developer learning Golang by building an activity tracker1. I want a low-effort way to track my physical activity, and building ...

Effective Error Handling in Golang

10 minute read

We’re Earthly. We make building software simpler and therefore faster. Earthly is open-source and written in go. So if you’re interested in a simple way to ...

The Complete Guide to Docker Secrets

7 minute read

We’re Earthly. We make building software simpler and therefore faster. This article is about Docker and how to manage secrets. If you’re interested in a sim...

Building a Golang JSON HTTP Server

10 minute read

If you want to build a simple JSON HTTP web service that runs natively on a Linux server, then Golang is a great choice. At least this is what I’ve been tol...

Podman: The Rootless Docker Alternative

7 minute read

For many developers, Docker was their first exposure to the wonderful world of containers. Containers have changed the way we develop and ship software, and...

Property-Based Testing In Go

7 minute read

Have you ever wanted your unit tests written for you? Property based testing is a powerful testing technique that, in a sense, is just that. You describe th...

Exploring Travis CI Alternatives

9 minute read

Travis CI is one of the best known continuous integration (CI) tools on the market. It was founded in 2011 to automate builds and tests for Ruby, but now su...

Jenkins Deployment Stages and Pipelines

9 minute read

The software release cycle has developed over time, from the days of moving code from one machine to another to see if it works (which was frequently error-...

Using AWK with CSV Files

3 minute read

When the AWK tutorial came out, one of the questions on hacker news was how you use AWK with CSV (comma-separated value) files.

Using ArgoCD for Kubernetes Deployments

8 minute read

Kubernetes has simplified the container management process for microservice applications, but developers often face challenges when using this notoriously c...

Bash String Manipulation

9 minute read

We’re Earthly. We make building software simpler and, therefore, faster. This article is about bash – which has its quirks but is a tool we find ourselves o...

Using Travis CI with Bitbucket

8 minute read

CI/CD (continuous integration / continuous delivery) helps development teams optimize software quality tests before delivering committed changes into produc...

How I Saved $5,000/mo with a $5 Droplet

8 minute read

On November 20, 2020 Docker began rate limiting requests to its popular Docker Hub registry. This change applied to all users, anonymous or free. When this ...

Understanding AWK

26 minute read

It turns out Awk is pretty simple. It has only a couple of conventions and only a small amount of syntax. It’s straightforward to learn, and once you underst...

An Introduction to JQ

18 minute read

We’re Earthly. We make building software simpler and therefore faster. This article is about JSON and using JQ but if you’re interested in a different appro...

Install matplotlib In A Docker Container

1 minute read

matplotlib is an excellent library for creating graphs and visualizations in Python. For example, I used it to generate the performance graphs in my merging...

Creating a G++ Makefile

10 minute read

We’re Earthly. We make building software simpler and therefore faster using containerization. This article covers GNU’s gcc compiler. If you’re interested i...

Linting Markdown And Documentation

8 minute read

Many linting, code formatting, and static analysis tools exist for code. You can use eslint, gofmt, or many other static analysis tools, combined with a gre...

Understanding Docker Multistage Builds

7 minute read

At first glance, writing Dockerfiles appears to be a straightforward process. After all, most basic examples reflect the same set of steps. However, not all...

Building a Monorepo with Bazel

11 minute read

Update: September, 2022 Read our interview series with Bazel experts on when to use Bazel. A monorepo is perhaps what you would expect from the name: ...

Understanding Docker Networking

17 minute read

We’re Earthly.dev. We make building software simpler and therefore faster using containerization. This article covers docker networking in depth. If you wan...

Addressing Slow Performance in Jenkins

8 minute read

There’s nothing more frustrating than a sluggish continuous integration system. It slows down feedback loops and prevents code from reaching production quic...

Understanding Docker Logging and Log Files

14 minute read

Docker logging and its management are an important part of the containerization of your application. Once you’ve deployed your application, logging is one o...

What is Buildkit?

10 minute read

There is an excellent open-source project that you have probably used without realizing it. It’s called BuildKit, and it is what turns a Dockerfile into a D...

Encrypting Data With SSH Keys and Golang

4 minute read

We’re currently working on a server for sharing secrets between developers and CI systems, and one of the features we decided to support is passwordless log...

Using gRPC with Golang, Python, and Ruby

6 minute read

I was surprised to learn that Google protocol buffers (protobufs), were first introduced nearly two decades ago. They were used internally at google as earl...

Can We Build Better?

4 minute read

Have you ever had a test fail in the build but not locally? I have. Have you ever then burnt half a day pushing small changes and waiting for your build to ...