At StreamElements we use Go extensively as our primary backend language. While we use Go for its great performance, which fits our distributed kind of work, one continuous issue is the fact that Go tends to generate quite a bit of boilerplate (more on why below). Go 1.18 was recently…

I’m excited to announce the release of v1.0.0 of Starlite. This release includes a thorough rewrite of the core logic, boosting performance and reducing resource usage quite drastically. Starlite is a Python ASGI API framework built on top of the Starlette ASGI toolkit and pydantic. It has some similarities to…

If you followed the r/javascript or r/programming subreddits in the past few days you probably already read about the latest Open Source scandal to hit the JavaScript community: About a year ago, Marak — a prolific open-source author, wrote in the repository of his highly popular library faker.js that he…

I’m very excited to announce the release of Starlite — a new python asynchronous API framework (ASGI). Starlite is built on top of the Starlette ASGI toolkit, which offers high performance async message handling, and pydantic, which offers fantastic data validation and parsing using type hints. Relation to FastAPI The idea to use…

4 use cases of OpenAPI which are good to know — In this article I offer an introduction to OpenAPI (OA) and some of its more interesting use cases. If you are already familiar with what OA is, you can skip ahead to the use-cases part of this article. What is OpenAPI? OpenAPI is a specification for documenting HTTP-based APIs in a way that…

In this article, I discuss duck-typing as a practice and a cool feature of TypeScript that makes a huge difference — type predicates. What is “Duck Typing”? Duck typing is a common practice in many OOP languages. It got its name from the so-called “Duck Test”, that is: If it looks like a duck…

Python is a dynamic programming language. This is both one of its strong suites — the language is extremely elastic, but also one of its largest pitfalls. Anyone who codes in statically typed languages knows that while types can be restricting, they also give you a great measure of safety…

In this article, I introduce Interface Forge and discuss some of its use cases, in what I like to think of as “mock driven development”. Note regarding TypeScript: Interface Forge is written in TypeScript and it offers strong TS support. As such all the examples below use TS as a…

Last update: 07.03.2021. In this article, I will explain how to set-up a pre-commit pipeline for a Django project. What and why Pre-Commit? Git supports running hooks at different stages of its workflow(s). For a detailed discussion see the official SCM book. …