Hexagonal architecture and Python - Part I: Dependency Injection and componential architecture

Posted on 30 October 2021 in Articles • Tagged with architecture, DDD, dependency injection, hexagonal architecture, programming, python • 8 min read

Python logo in a hexagon

Welcome to articles series which cover the principles of Hexagonal architecture, talks of Dependency Injection, and its usage in these to Python and Django application design.


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Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders - book review

Posted on 22 October 2021 in Books • Tagged with book, leadership • 4 min read

Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders book cover

"Turn The Ship Around!" is an exceptional book. It narrates a story of a poor-performing submarine becoming the best in a short period of time. It teaches the mechanisms of such transformation which involve the leader and the team alike.


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Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps - book review

Posted on 23 June 2021 in Books • Tagged with book, software development, accelerate • 3 min read

Accelerate book cover

Are you familiar with the gut feeling that the software development practices around you could be better? What if I told you that there is a solid scientific study on practices of low and high performing technology organizations?


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Alarms and dashboards

Posted on 04 June 2021 in Articles • Tagged with rants, alarm, dashboard, DevOps, errors • 2 min read

Ranting about alarms and dashboards


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Concrete Settings: a new way to manage configurations in Python projects

Posted on 11 July 2020 in Articles • Tagged with programming, library, python, concrete settings • 5 min read

After two years of developing a hobby project, I am proud to announce Concrete Settings - a new configuration management library for Python projects.

Concrete Settings was born as an effort to improve configuration handling in a huge decade-old Django application with exceedingly bloated settings.py. Remember that settings.py starts …


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Is classical music performed too fast?

Posted on 25 April 2018 in Articles • Tagged with music, classical • 2 min read

Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger... wait - that is Daft Punk. Though classical music seems to follow.


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Blogging with Pelican

Posted on 25 April 2017 in Articles • Tagged with blogging, pelican, python • 2 min read

Pelican is a perfect blogging platform for programmers and computer geeks. My blog has been powered by Pelican for three years and it has been a pleasant experience. If you are looking forward to start a blog, or just thinking of changing a platform, why not give it a try?


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The ultimate guide to Python decorators

Posted on 22 January 2017 in Articles • Tagged with Python, programming • 12 min read

Decorators are one of the most beautiful feature of Python programming language. They can make code easy-readable and maintainable. Nevertheless, their usage may seem tricky and mysterious in the beginning. This is a guide to the world of decorators. I hope that you will feel like a pro and have no questions left about them after exploring this article.


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My story of caffeine withdrawal

Posted on 31 May 2015 in Articles • Tagged with Life, Caffeine • 3 min read

After getting hooked on coffee, I decided to stop drinking caffeinated drinks. This is a story of my detoxification.


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Python nightmares: Implicit this

Posted on 11 May 2015 in Articles • Tagged with Python, programming • 2 min read

I met a lot of Python beginners who complained about this keyword not implicitly available in class methods. After all, why pass self explicitly?


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