BLOB storage stands for Binary Large OBject storage and is very diverse in its use cases. A binary object can refer to images, audio and multimedia files literally anything similar to how files are stored on your PC/Laptop file system. Imagine if your file system now had a HTTP API…

This is the third of a 8 part tutorial series where we will explore a critical part of network infrastructure. In this tutorial we are going to implement a Load Balancer in Python using TDD (Test Driven Development). This tutorial is aimed at beginners and will go into detail on…

This is the second of a 8 part tutorial series where we will explore a critical part of network infrastructure. In this tutorial we are going to implement a Load Balancer in Python using TDD (Test Driven Development). …

This is the first of a 8 part tutorial series where we will explore a critical part of network infrastructure. In this tutorial we are going to implement a Load Balancer in Python using TDD (Test Driven Development). …

The world is in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic but the spark that allows humans to innovate never stops. We have the ability to adapt to our surroundings and produce inventions to fight anything that stands in our way. Welcome to the Q1 2020 Edition of Python Upcoming Open…

Ruby is one of the most fun languages to develop and prototype in. It has very popular libraries such as Ruby on Rails that make it a strong contender for pretty much all areas. In this story I will go through some new and upcoming open source libraries that can…

Python as a programming language has a strong presence on the Software Engineering world in 2019 with new libraries coming out everyday. In this story I will go through some new and upcoming open source libraries that can be used for your new or existing projects. The focus here is…

Fear Driven Development (or FDD) or Fear Based Software Engineering is more common than we think. FDD traditionally stems from past experiences of encountering bugs or practices that tend to influence our decisions when creating something new. This is not necessarily a negative behavioural trait, it simply needs to be…

I normally like to stick to Software Engineering but this seems to be related. Strava is a great app, I use it daily to record my cycling journeys and follow my friends. One weekday I was at work with my long time colleague, we decided to video call our former…