Amit Saha is a Sydney-based software engineer, author, and open-source contributor who shares knowledge through articles, books, and conference talks. He contributes to major projects across Go, Python, Java, Rust, and cloud-native ecosystems.
110 articles from this blog
A technical guide on installing and using runC and libcontainer to create and manage containers on Fedora 23/24.
Author discusses writing a Go image cropping program for Linux Voice, sharing insights on Go's features and providing code resources.
A Fedora maintainer shares a Python script to scrape and email daily reports of failed live CD builds from Koji.
A guide on using the moto library to mock AWS S3 interactions in Python tests, replacing complex boto mocks.
A guide to using Python's tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile() for creating and managing temporary files with control over deletion.
Explains how Python's Mock objects handle non-existent attributes and methods, focusing on special behavior for 'assert' prefixes.
Explains the concept of data-only Docker containers for persistent storage, using Jenkins as a practical example.
A developer's journey from avoiding virtualenvs to adopting 'pew', a tool that simplifies Python virtual environment management.
Explains how PYTHONHASHSEED affects test reliability and demonstrates robust testing strategies for non-deterministic dictionary ordering.
A tutorial for setting up Puppet in standalone mode on Fedora 23, including writing manifests and Serverspec tests.
