I spent a very long amount of time trying to figure out how to simulate a broken database connection in Django. The problem is that not only do you want raw cursors to timeout, but also all models accessing the database.
Source: How to simulate a broken database connection for testing in Django, an article by Neil Kakkar.
This article is about configuring a web application, Appsmith in this case, to run correctly behind a firewall that does SSL decryption, as a Docker container.
There is an area of Python that many developers have problems with. This is an area that has seen many different solutions pop up over the years, with many different opinions, wars, and attempts to solve it. Many have complained about the packaging ecosystem and tools making their lives harder. Many beginners are confused about virtual environments. But does it have to be this way? Are the current solutions to packaging problems any good? And is the organization behind most of the packaging tools and standards part of the problem itself?
Source: How to improve Python packaging, or why fourteen tools are at least twelve too many, an article by Chris Warrick.