Build a microVM using Firecracker

This post will cover how to create a custom microVM using Firecracker. We will add a simple Flask app to the microVM. By doing so, you will learn how to install custom packages to your own microVM. This post assumes that you have used Firecracker and tried out a basic example already. Why this post? AWS Lambda stands out as […]

Use pytest to run Great Expectations checkpoints

At Qxf2, we’ve successfully integrated Great Expectations into majority of our projects. We now have GitHub workflows in place to run Great Expectations checkpoints before deploying our applications to production. However, as our test suite expanded, we encountered a few challenges: 1. Triggering valid checkpoints. 2. Aggregating checkpoint results. To address these issues, we turned to pytest. In this post, […]

Build a semantic search tool using FAISS

This post provides an overview of implementing semantic search. Why? Because too often, we notice testers skip testing more complex features like autocomplete. This might be ok in most applications. But in domain specific applications, testing autocomplete capabilities of the product is important. Since testers can benefit from understanding implementation details, in this post, we will look at how autocomplete […]

Add Google Sign-In to your Flask app

Recently, I integrated SSO with Google Sign-In into a web application using the oauthlib library. While working on this project, I found plenty of resources on SSO and oauthlib separately, but struggled to find a tutorial that could guide me through the setup of Google Sign-In using oauthlib in a timely manner. Therefore, I’ve written this post to provide a […]

Handling set new password prompt with Paramiko

Why this post? I hit an issue at one of our client recently – beginning from the latest version of the application, the remote server will prompt for a new password in the first login attempt, the password that comes out of the box will take you to the set new password prompt where you need to set a new […]