Implement constant time compare algorithms for sensitive data — Introduction: This post gives a brief introduction on timing attacks and how to avoid them while writing your python code. We will also walk through how timing attacks are performed by hackers, what kind of code is vulnerable to such attacks. What are timing attacks? A timing attack is a security vulnerability in which the…

Understanding dependency injection in fastapi — Introduction: This post describes how to implement a basic authentication using fastapi. If you're new to fastapi and are looking for a quick introduction, please read this article. Authentication: Authentication simply put is identifying a user. The user could be a person or another application.For all the API endpoints you develop, we…

Dockerising your fastapi application — Introduction: The objective of this post is to dockerise a minimalistic fastapi application. Let's take an example of a simple fastapi program and dockerise it. A Simple Fastapi Application: The below code is a bare minimum fastapi application with a single end point /hello. Let's say the module name is my_fastapi.py. Running the fastapi application: Output:

Different ways to connect to mysql using python — Introduction: This article discusses how to connect to a mysql database using python. We will review three ways of connecting to mysql using python If you’re looking for an introduction to basic SQL queries, please read this post. Connect to mysql using sql connector: The connection to mysql can be established using mysql-connector-python library.

Use fastapi-pagination library to paginate API responses — Introduction Hello everyone! Today we are gonna discuss an intriguing topic. Have you ever wondered how huge websites like amazon load data on their web pages? How does the data get populated as and when you scroll through your product catalog? Do they load it all at once? Well, definitely not…

Dockerize a minimalistic flask application — Introduction: The objective of this post is to dockerise a minimalistic flask application. Let’s take an example of a simple flask program and dockerise it. A Simple Flask Application: The below code is a bare minimum flask application with a single end point /hello. Let’s say the module name is my_flask.py. my_flask.py from flask import Flask…

Most of the Gen X and Y Parents have lied to their children — Now, before y'all start bashing me that parenting is sacred and it takes a lot of sacrifice, I’d like say that I still stick with my words. We all have been lied to. Who’s we? Well our entire generation has been fed with nothing but lies. Well that came out…

A comprehensive study of list comprehensions — Introduction: As developers, we have all used functional loops predominantly to perform a task. In today’s fast-moving world, we do have to agree with the fact that we continuously strive to code better; code cleaner. We learn to write cleaner code either from code reviews or reading blogs, books, viewing videos…

Use MSGraph search API query to filter email messages. — Introduction: This article describes how to filter email messages from an Outlook mailbox using python. We will be using the following libraries to accomplish this task. https://github.com/AzureAD/microsoft-authentication-library-for-python Note: Please note that if you are using ADAL for authentication, Microsoft recommends migrating to MSAL.