alchermd's comments

alchermd | 3 years ago | on: Sunsetting Atom

Atom was my first text editor when I was getting serious into learning software development. Sharing this neat video for those who hasn't seen it yet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7aEiVwBAdk

alchermd | 4 years ago | on: It's tough being an Azure fan

I understand what you feel completely. I actually wasn't even able to complete the tutorial since the commands given would trigger a permission error one way or another. I got charged $50 as well since I wasn't aware that there's still services running. Such a terrible thing to front as a "Getting Started" guide.

alchermd | 4 years ago | on: Stripe Payment Links

Really excited to see your release on the Philippines. Godspeed!

alchermd | 5 years ago | on: FastAPI framework, high perf, easy to learn, fast to code, ready for production

I still use Django to this day, both for monolithic SSRs and REST APIs. All the batteries it comes with are perfect for the common use case, and the small "bubble" around it (ex: DRF) is as good as it gets IMO.

The tooling around REST APIs are lacking compared to Flask and FastAPI, but wrangling what's available (drf-yasg, oauth2lib) to suit my needs is better than migrating to another framework I think.

alchermd | 5 years ago | on: REST Servers in Go: Part 1 – standard library

Interesting. Can you give an example of a "huge and horrible" abstraction that stems from your usage of DRF?

I remember having the same sentiment a few months back, but investing a considerable amount of time planning the structure of serializers and sticking to DRF's patterns did reduce the amount of "fighting" that I need to do to make my API work as expected.

alchermd | 5 years ago | on: REST Servers in Go: Part 1 – standard library

I'm an API developer working with Python and Django. I did dabble with Golang for quite some time, but I just can't seem to justify the effort (in terms of lines of codes and static typing) of writing a ReST API with Go when I can build a similar one with Django and co (DRF, Swagger, etc).

Can someone chime in? There must be an obvious advantage that I might be missing.