As a follow up to Python Mocking 101: Fake It Before You Make It, this post covers some higher-level software engineering principles demonstrated in our Python testing over the past year and half. In particular, the idea of patching mock objects in unit t... (more…)

Each day, over 95 million photos and videos are shared on Instagram. The unstoppable photo-centric social media platform has over 600 million registered users — 400 million of whom are active every day. Talk about operating at scale: Instagram kills it at... (more…)

I wanted to give GraphQL a shot for a while now. After all, the cool kids at Github are doing it, so I wanted to learn what all the hype is… (more…)

cachier - Persistent, stale-free, local and cross-machine caching for Python functions. (more…)

This post describes important idioms that are used to manipulate data structures in Python... (more…)