In the past few days, I have been working with Windows containers, and I have been facing issues with loading certain DLLs in these containers from my applications. It has been the classic “It works on my machine” problem, meaning it has been working without any issues on my host Windows machine. However, when running…
Yes, you read it correctly, I have moved my blog from Hugo back to WordPress. Usually the story goes the other way around, just like it did for me once upon a time, yet here I find myself. In the ever-evolving landscape of content creation, the tools we use to publish our thoughts, ideas, and…
Containers are widely used for deploying and running applications. There are several benefits for containerizing applications. They offer a consistent environment for applications to be deployed to together with their dependencies. Containers are able to isolate workloads, and guarantee a certain amount of resources for each workload. In addition, they can be created fast, on…
For the longest time I haven’t found good examples online on how to unit test Flask applications. Especially when following clean architecture, and when using dependency injection. That is why I decided to write this post. Flask is a minimalistic web framework, so I understand that most examples are small and simple. However, I know…
Flask-Migrate is a python package that configures SQLAlchemy and Alembic for your Flask application. Alembic is the migration tool that actually takes care of database migrations under the hood. It can automatically generate migration files based on database schema models, and apply those migrations to databases. This is truly powerful, since it enables you to…