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API python

HTTPX: An open stream object is being garbage collected; call “stream.close()” explicitly.

When using HTTPX I get the following error printed sometimes: An open stream object is being garbage collected; call "stream.close()" explicitly. According to these two github issues: An open stream object is being garbage collected; call "stream.close()" explicitly An open stream object is being garbage collected; call "stream.close()" explicitly This is a Python 3.8.0 issue. […]

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book reviews Enterpreneur Wisdoms Programming

97 Things every Developer should Know – Summarised Notes

I came across this book due to it being popular on a top 10 list somewhere. Usually I take these "xxx you should know" or "Top 100 essential things" with a pinch of salt. Everyone is different and everyone has an opinion. Nonetheless I wanted to read this book and see what it is about. […]

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API Kong

Kong: Name resolution failed

Sometimes when calling a service on kong you might get a response like this HTTP/1.1 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable Connection: keep-alive Content-Length: 36 Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8 Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2020 09:28:06 GMT Server: kong/2.0.1 X-Kong-Response-Latency: 12 { “message”: “name resolution failed” } What does it mean? Kong cannot access the upstream. Make sure the […]

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API virtualisation vmware vcd rest api

How to update, change and delete a storage Profile with VCloud Director REST API

Recently I was tasked with removing a few attached storage profiles from a number of VDC’s in vCloud Director. The task would have been a long and arduous manual task. Fortunately vCloud Director has a REST API (A flippen good one). The reason I say it is good is that it makes proper used of […]

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python

How to speed up http calls in python? With Examples

Blocking HTTP requests The most popular and easy to use blocking http client for python is requests. The requests docs are simple and straight forward…for humans. The biggest performance gain you can acquire (provided you are making requests to a single host) is using an http session. This creates a persistent connection, meaning that additional […]