Adding Context to each FastAPI request using request state
Take anything from loggers to data to functions straight from your request in your endpoints
Pydantic Performance: 4 tips on how to Validate Large Amounts of Data Efficiently
Pydantic's Rust core enables high-throughput validation, but only when used intentionally. This article examines four common gotchas and explains how aligning model design with the validation engine improves clarity, scalability, and performance.
Layered Architecture for Building Readable, Robust, and Extensible Apps
If adding a feature feels like open-heart surgery on your codebase, the problem isn’t bugs, it’s structure. This article shows how better architecture reduces risk, speeds up change, and keeps teams moving.
Faster Is Not Always Better: Choosing the Right PostgreSQL Insert Strategy in Python (+benchmarks)
PostgreSQL is fast. Whether your Python code can or should keep up depends on context. This article compares and benchmarks various insert strategies, focusing not on micro-benchmarks but on trade-offs between safety, abstraction, and throughput and choosing the right tool for the job.
Tools for your LLM: a Deep Dive into MCP
MCP is a key enabler into turning your LLM into an agent by providing it with tools to retrieve real-time information or perform actions. In this deep dive we cover how MCP works, when to use it, and what to watch out for.
Personal, Agentic Assistants: A Practical Blueprint for a Secure, Multi-User, Self-Hosted Chatbot
Build a self-hosted, end-to-end platform that gives each user a personal, agentic chatbot that can autonomously search through files that the user explicitly allows it to access. Full control, 100% private, all the benefits of LLM without the privacy leaks, token costs or external dependencies.
The Problem with AI Browsers: Security Flaws and the end of Privacy
Atlas and other AI browsers are a hot mess when it comes to security, privacy and censorship. In this post we'll explore how hackers can access your private data and how privacy is dead when using Atlas.
Understanding When and How to Implement FastAPI Middleware (Examples and Use Cases)
Supercharge Your FastAPI with Middleware: Practical Use Cases and Examples
Dynamic, Lazy Dependency Injection in Python
Automatic Python dependency injection to make your code more testable, decoupled, uncomplicated and readable.
Log Breadcrumbs: only show Logs leading up to an Error
How to log breadcrumbs using Python's built-in logging package
Let’s Write a Composable, Easy-to-Use Caching Package in Python
Easy, user-friendly caching that tailors to all your needs
Turn Your Python Function into a Decorator with One Line of Code
A new way to write shorter, clearer, and more readable Python decorators that also act as a context manager