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18 posts on Python, data, and infrastructure, written since 2016.

2026

  1. Fixing the blank login screen after upgrading Ubuntu 24.04 to 26.04

    How I fixed a blank GDM login screen after upgrading Ubuntu 24.04 to 26.04. The problem was a conflicting AppArmor profile for bwrap.

  2. DeepDiff 9.0.0 Is Released

    DeepDiff 9.0.0 is a major release that improves correctness and consistency, updates Python support, adds useful new features, and marks both a new milestone in adoption and a new …

2024

  1. How to persist pod logs on Minikube

    How to persist pod logs in Minikube so they survive pods getting killed and even Minikube restarts.

2023

  1. Upgrading to Pydantic 2: More quirky than you would expect.

    Upgrading to Pydantic 2 was more painful than expected. Better do it now than later!

  2. Introducing Qluster - ETL As Spreadsheet

    What if you could make data pipelines that automatically quarantine and fix bad data without a single line of code?

2021

  1. DeepDiff Tutorial: Deep Commandline

    DeepDiff introduces commandline feature in the 5.2.1 release: deep diff. deep grep deep extract deep patch. Let’s dig in!

2020

  1. A How To Guide: Remotely Accessing Minikube Kubernetes on KVM

    Run and remotely access a Minikube Kubernetes cluster using the KVM on your computer

  2. DeepDiff: 1.7 Million Downloads A Month

    It is June 2020 and I have some exciting news to share.

  3. DeepDiff 5 Is Here!

    Delta, Deep Distance, Numpy Support, granular results when ignoring the order and many optimizations are introduced! The Delta objects are like git commits but for structured data. …

2019

  1. Faster, cheaper, and better: A story of breaking a monolith

    On May 21st 2019, we broke search service out of vehicle-service. It was faster, cheaper, and better!

  2. DeepDiff Tutorial: Comparing Numbers

    One of the features of DeepDiff that comes very handy is comparing nested data structures that include numbers. There are times that we do care about the exact numbers and want it …

  3. You AutoComplete Me

    Autocomplete in Python. Get familiar with various data structures in Python, from the built-in deque to creating Trie-tree and Directed Acyclic Word Graph (DAWG) and even fuzzy …

2017

  1. Magic Method, on the wall, who, now, is the __fairest__ one of all?

    Magic methods are a very powerful feature of Python and can open a whole new door for you. However, with great power comes great responsibility.

2016

  1. Harness the power of Python magic methods and lazy objects.

    Dimistify lazy objects in Python, mainly focusing on lazy loading aspect but not lazy writing. However in order to do lazy loading, we need to have a good understanding of some of …

  2. RedisWorks, the Pythonic Redis Client.

    Introducing RedisWorks. How to get more from Redis with less coding.

  3. Amazon S3 made simple for Python apps.

    From time to time I need to do some simple file/folder transfer/query from a Python app to a S3 bucket. There is a great Python library called Boto that offers a comprehensive low …

  4. Diff It To Digg It

    Anybody who has used git diff will know that your life is not the same once you start diffing. When you get to the habit, there is no going back. Now let’s look at diff for …

  5. Celery: Get Your Task Together

    An [outdated] comparison between different Distributed Task Queues