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Pydantic Data Validation

Feb 6, 2023 · 2 min read · The last blog discussed a method of data validation, exemplified through a POST request, that utilized a class whose __init__ method attempted to assign parameters and threw an error if a parameter did not exist. Unfortunately, that class structure w...

Data Validation

Jan 30, 2023 · 1 min read · Often, if not always, you want to validate an incoming payload to ensure it is passing the necessary parameters. If parameters are missing, you can fast-fail with an InvalidInput-like exception to quickly let the requester know the payload is malform...

Dependency Injection

Nov 11, 2022 · 3 min read · Dependency Injection and Inversion of Control is a bit like teenage sex - everyone is talking about it, everyone wants to try it, and yet nobody seems to understand it. A quick google search will find you overwhelmed by meaningless statements like ...

Cowsay GROMACS

Aug 22, 2022 · 1 min read · Many of us are familiar with cowsay, "a program which generates an ASCII image of a cow along with a message". You just add your message in quotes after the command like this: cowsay "hello world" For the adventurous, you can pipe the output of the...

A Decorator to Record Execution Time

Aug 17, 2022 · 2 min read · It can be useful to measure the execution time of functions to ensure your code is running well. An execution time way longer than average implies an issue. Here is a lightweight context manager, implemented as a decorator, which saves some metrics o...