12 posts tagged with "devops"

Supabase Pitfalls: Avoid These Common Mistakes for a Robust Backend​

Supabase offers a powerful open-source alternative to Firebase, built around PostgreSQL. Its ease of use makes it a favorite for rapid development, but this very convenience can lead developers down paths that introduce technical debt, performance bottlenecks, and security vulnerabilities. Understanding and avoiding these common pitfalls is crucial for building a robust and scalable application.

Supabase has minimal vendor lock-in by design because it's built on a foundation of popular open-source technologies, most notably PostgreSQL. This is a core part of their philosophy and a key differentiator from closed-source alternatives like Firebase. However, while minimal, some "stickiness" exists in their value-added services.

A common and reliable way to get a fresh copy from a GitHub repository, while preserving specific local files like .gitignore, is to use a combination of git reset and git clean. This approach ensures your local branch exactly mirrors the remote branch, without leaving behind any untracked or unwanted files.

To discard all your local changes and pull the latest version from a GitHub repository, you need to completely reset your local branch to match the remote's state. This process involves a few steps to ensure all uncommitted and committed local changes are removed.

This guide covers the most reliable methods, including situations where you've already made local commits.

We're constantly striving for higher quality, faster delivery, and closer collaboration. In the realm of API development, where contracts and interactions are paramount, these goals often feel like a constant uphill battle. This is where Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) emerges not just as a testing methodology, but as a powerful paradigm for designing, developing, and validating robust Python API systems.

We've all seen projects spiral when API design is an afterthought. It's a common trap: dive straight into coding, then realize downstream that your API is clunky, inconsistent, and a nightmare to integrate with. This is precisely why the Design-First (API-First) paradigm isn't just a buzzword; it's a critical methodology for building scalable, maintainable, and truly collaborative API systems, especially within the Python ecosystem.

Not only Shift-Left mantra matters​

The mantra of "Shift Left" has echoed through the halls of software development for years now, and for good reason. The core idea is simple yet powerful: move testing, quality, and security considerations as early as possible in the development lifecycle. It's about catching problems when they're small and cheap to fix, not when they're gargantuan headaches in production. But as a lead engineer who's seen a few projects through the trenches, I've come to realize that "Shift Left" isn't the destination; it's the starting point.

To truly build robust, maintainable, and high-quality software, especially in a dynamic language like Python, we need to embrace a set of development paradigms that not only support but enhance the "Shift Left" philosophy. These aren't just buzzwords; they are methodologies that, when adopted, fundamentally change how we approach writing code for the better.

I'm continuing the paradigms circle. The Shift Left paradigm is well-known in the DevOps and QA communities for its philosophy of catching bugs, security issues, and integration problems early in the development lifecycle. But Shift Left is not the only valuable philosophy out there. In fact, in some contexts, other paradigms can be even more effective.

This article introduces several software development paradigms that complement or enhance Shift Left-and may even be more impactful depending on your context.

The NoRegionError in Boto3, the AWS SDK for Python, usually occurs when the AWS client or resource is initialized without specifying a region, and no default region is set in your AWS configuration.

If you've heard developers or tech leads talk about "shifting left", it may sound like some kind of command-line trick. But in reality, "shift left" is a mindset - and it's becoming increasingly important in modern software development.

Whether you're writing Python or any other language, understanding this approach can help you build more reliable code, find bugs earlier, and ship faster.