Zikani's Blog

In this article I will show you how to setup a minimal test using testcontainers-go.

Sometimes, you may need to generate fake data for use for testing behavior of your systems or for load or volume testing, for example to test that pagination behavior works well with hundreds or hundreds of thousands of records .

In this article I go over how I implemented a Spring Boot API for Spam Detection using an advanced anti-spam model from the Hugging Face onnx-community and Microsoft’s ONNX Runtime for Java.

I am working on a browser automation thingy and want to try supporting LightPanda as I am interested in seeing if it may be a good lightweight alternative to Chromium for CI (Continuous Integration) tests.

Whenever you work on anything, it's typically to address a present or future need or activity.

In this article we will see how to leverage Postgres support for pipelining queries which “allows applications to send a query without having to read the result of the previously sent query”.

In this article, we will look at how to use a tool I built named git-monorepo to merge existing Git repositories into a monorepo while maintaining the complete history from each repository.

Embeddings or Vector Embeddings are the numeric representation of text or other data that enables a lot of Machine learning tasks like classification and clustering.

One observation I have made working with fellow developers, especially those with less experience or just getting started is the lack of confidence to make educated/informed guesses about things.

I am working on a personal CRM/Note taking app and wanted to show my friends how it works to get some feedback and ideas from them, just in case I consider making it more widely accessible tool or maybe even Open Source.

In this article, we will see how to store a Go object (struct) as as encrypted data in a database.

In this article we will see how to implement a micro-service to calculate administrative fees.

When I first heard the expression, “Don’t treat servers as Pets, treat them more like Cattle” it immediately made sense to me, based on what I knew about the value of Cattle and Pets, then I heard the real explanation that made me pause … and chuckle.

This article is written in Chichewa.

Modern day developers are no strangers to automatically generated project names, these have become common and you may run into them if you use for example: Vercel for deploying projects Fly.io Docker (Desktop) ... and many other modern tools that generate…

This article was authored at the kitchen sink.

In this quick-n-dirty article, we will see how to generate a PDF from a user-submitted markdown with Go.

If you have used Hibernate before you know that you can specify that an Entity class should have it's @Id fields set via @GeneratedValue - typically you use either a sequence or identity strategy to automatically generate, say, auto-incrementing integer I…

In this article, we will look at some cool, practical query tricks you can use in projects that use PostgreSQL as the DBMS: Order results but select a specific first-row This trick allows you to write a query with an order-by clause which allows you to ch…

Damn, this one bit me very recently.