Eduardo Zepeda's latests posts
Go: Handling Signals for Closing Applications
- go
- linux and devops
Today I'm going to talk about a topic that is often overlooked in most tutorials: handling application closing. What do I mean? To those times when you have to close an application, but there may be pending tasks running, open connections or you simply want to leave a recor...
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Generating PDFs with Django and Reportlab
- django
With django and reportlab we can generate PDFs dynamically, using information from our database, user input or any other business logic we want.Installation of reportlab The first thing will be to install reportlab, we can use pip, pipenv or any other package manager you wan...
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Azure AZ-900 Certification Exam: My Experience
- software architecture
- opinions
On Saturday, August 6, 2022 I sat for and approved my Microsoft Azure AZ-900 certification exam.What does AZ-900 certification consist of? The AZ-900 Fundamentals certification ensures that a person knows all the basic services that Microsoft's cloud, Azure, and its en...
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Dynamic sitemap with django
- django
A sitemap is an xml file that functions as a map to navigate your site. Hence the name; Site-map. Search engines, such as google, bing, yahoo and others, use the sitemap of a site as a starting point to analyze its content and include it in their search results.A sitemap is ...
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Logging with the standard library in Go
- go
As you probably already know, you should not use prints for debugging. The standard go logging library is much more versatile, it adds dates, filenames and other information, plus you can redirect the logs to standard output, to a file or wherever you want. This can make your deb...
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How Does a Docker Container Work Internally?
- docker
- linux and devops
- go
Containers, especially Docker containers, are used everywhere, we tend to see them as small isolated operating systems that are inside our system. Using the Docker commands we can modify them, create them, delete them and even get inside them and run commands, but have you ever w...
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Autocomplete, Suggestions and Related Content: Solr and Django
- django
- linux and devops
Solr, together with Lucene, is an outstanding search engine that allows you to perform searches with advanced features. In this post I bring you a summary of some of the most interesting features of Solr and Django Haystack.I assume you already have a configured django app w...
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How to implement Solr for searches or queries in Django?
- django
- linux and devops
Previously I explained you how to implement full text search in Django and trigrams-and-search-rank using Postgres. Solr comes to offer us something better, a robust, stable and feature-rich search engine, ready to use, in exchange for a little more complexity, more dependencies ...
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Understand How Git Submodules Works and its Workflow
- git
- linux and devops
A git submodule is a record within a git repository that points to a commit in an external repository. They are handled exactly as you would with a repository, they even have a .git file that points to the location where a changelog is kept.Simplified outline of git submodul...
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Top 5 Favorite Algorithm Problems at Codewars
- opinions
- algorithms
What is codewars? Codewars is a social network of programmers who get together to challenge each other to solve code challenges. Codewars is one of the best websites for practicing algorithms and solving Katas. Katas? Yes, as in Karate.What are katas in codewars? In the spir...
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