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Python Coroutines

Exploring accidental synchronous blocking in asynchronous programming in Python with coroutines.

Python coroutines allow for asynchronous programming in a language that earlier in its history, has only supported synchronous execution. I've previously compared taking a synchronous approach in Python to a parallel approach in Go using channels. If you're familiar with async/await in JavaScript,...

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Render Python Encodings Error

Render is a platform as a service company that makes it easy to quickly deploy small apps. They have an easy-to-use free tier and I wanted run a Python app with dependencies managed by Poetry. Things had been going pretty well until I unexpectedly got the following error after a deploy

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Kubernetes Liveness Check

When deploying software with Kubernetes, you need to expose a liveness HTTP request in the application. The Kubernetes default liveness HTTP endpoint is /healthz, which seems to be a Google convention, z-pages. A lot of Kubernetes deployments won't rely on the defaults. Here is an example...

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Embracing Failure in Software Development

Exploring the Importance of Embracing Failure in Software Development and the Value of Learning from Mistakes

To write software is to experience constant failure until you get a success. When you start learning to write code, very little works, especially on your first try. You make a lot of mistakes. Maybe you copied example code to get started, then modify it to try and do something new. Reading errors...