The build context is the set of files located at the specified PATH or URL. Those files are sent to the Docker daemon during the build so it can use them in the filesystem of the image. Let’s ...

We have a test project with a single model Vehicle that contains some data about abandoned cars in Chicago (we already experimented with it in previous articles 1 and 2). In the README file, you can ...

I hope y’all are doing well. Last week we covered the job interview experiences of some of our contributors. I hope it helps your next job interview process go a lot more smoothly. Even so, it takes ...

The majority of managers (and some employees) dream is to have a well-established software factory. A long (virtual) conveyor, where customer's needs come in, these requirements disassembled, analyzed ...

Photo by Marc Sendra Martorell on Unsplash. If you have read some of my previous Python articles, you know I’m a Flask fan. It is my go-to for building APIs in Python. However, recently I started to ...

Software development is a constant learning experience, but there are certain habits and tips that I wished I internalized earlier. Hopefully, these will be of help to any software developer who’s ...

Detecting the location of your website’s users is useful for a variety of reasons. You might, for instance, want to display different content, perhaps in different languages for people from different ...

Photo by Mike Tinnion on Unsplash. Logging is a crucial part of developing an application. When the app is in production, logs are necessary to identify the problem if something goes wrong. So if you ...

In this series, I go through different common-use case scenarios in which your first thought could be using a library or making something completely custom from scratch, even when there are native ...

As a passionate ChatGPT enthusiast, I’ve always been intrigued by the potential of harnessing its power to transform existing applications. One day, I had an epiphany: why not take a deep dive into ...

I’ve been building Alexa skills for the past few years, with over a dozen published skills in the Amazon Alexa store. I’m a lifelong learner and first got involved with Alexa three years ago. It was a ...

Distributed teams are the future of work, but how do they actually work? Here at FirstMark, we’re proud backers of a number of companies that subscribe to that future — like InVision, Upwork, and ...