Published in Weekly Webtips·Aug 10, 2020Member-onlyUsing GitHub actions for integration testing on a REST APIIn this post, I’m going to show you how to configure a GitHub action as a continuous integration pipeline for a REST API. Motivation Andrés, a friend of mine, gave a talk about testing REST APIs, using Postman’s test scripts. For his talk, He decided to include a demo which uses…Python 39 min read
Published in The Startup·Jan 12, 2020Member-onlyDeploying a Go function on Google Cloud PlatformFunction as a Service (FaaS) is a compute model provided by several Cloud Companies nowadays, in which, you deploy a unit of your application (a function) without worrying about the provisioning and the underlaying hardware. Instead, you take care of its association as a callback of an event. …Golang6 min read
Jul 19, 2016Costa Coffee (Malta)It’s been a while since my last post, I was sick, busy… yes I’ve got thousand of excuses, the truth is I just lost the inspiration, the motivation, but things are getting better now and I’m feeling this necessity of writing again. Writing makes me feel good (even for me…Life Lessons3 min read
Feb 21, 2016How to strip HTML tags from a string, in PythonEarlier this week I needed to remove some HTML tags from a text, the target string was already saved with HTML tags in the database, and one of the requirement specifies that in some specific page we need to render it as a raw text. I knew from the beginning…Python1 min read
Feb 4, 2016How to get the latest/earliest moment from a day in PythonEarly this week I needed to get the moment 2016-01-01 23:59:59 and the moment 2016-01-01 00:00:00 (an entire day range) for a new feature in which I was working on. At the beginning I tried to get those moments doing my own calculations but a voice in my head was…Datetime1 min read
Jan 12, 2016Fixing SQLAlchemy autoincrement issue for SQLiteI am working in a Python Web application which has two components, the first one is an API and the second one is a web client. The API has been building in Flask and SQLAlchemy has been selected as ORM, last week I needed to define a model in which…Flask2 min read
Dec 5, 2015Unit Tests in Django (Talk)Last October I had the honor of giving a talk in Bogotá Django Meetup about Unit Testing in Django, that was my second talk as member of the meetup, I had fun there and I think attenders got a practical view about how to test Django applications. In this post I just want to share to you the slides and the video, in Django Bogotá we mostly speak in Spanish so the video is in that language, however I wrote the slides in English :)Djando1 min read
Nov 9, 2015Using signet gem for basic get/post requestsI have been working in a POC during two weeks using Ruby/Sinatra, integrating two internal products to our current Ruby on Rails project (power consuming savings), since it is only a POC, Sinatra fit perfectly for the purpose I was looking for; simplicity and velocity. One of the products that…Ruby3 min read
Oct 26, 2015My first ever coffee tastingLast Saturday I had the opportunity to participate in a coffee tasting, as Colombian I really like coffee, here We have one of the greatest coffee quality in the world, in fact Colombia is recognized in the globe for its coffee, that’s why I wanted to share what I have…Coffee2 min read
Oct 5, 2015Django, Django Compressor, S3 and CloudFront, Step by Step (Part 2)In Part 1 We saw how to configure django-compresor in a Django project, as an example We set up a project using bootstrap and locally We compressed all the assets, so every time We changed some assets dango-compress package generated a new version file to link (naming the compressed file…Djando4 min read
