The Test-NetConnection cmdlet is great and verbose but too slow if the remote port to check is not opened. This is due to its timeout setting and cannot be modified. In this port, I will show you a custom function that leverages the power of System.Net.Sockets.TcpClient to accelerate the port test.
Python has several tools to upload packages to PyPi or some private Artifactory locations. The mostly used one should be twine. Although twine is not a Python originate tool, but it's officially recommended by Python.org.
Pandas dataframe is like a small database, we can use it to inject some data and do some in-memory filtering without any external SQL. This post is much like a summary of this StackOverflow thread.
This is not a complete Git cheat sheet for everyone, this is just a personal cheat sheet for some often forgotten git commands.
SQLAlchemy DB session is not thread safe. In this post, I will show you 2 ways to use it in a multithreading context.
When you need to use a complicated, or a non-standard API authentication method, or your dev and prd environments don't use the same API authentication method, it might be better to create a Python requests auth method to reduce your work.
Even Salvatore Sanfilippo (creator of Redis) thinks it's a bad idea to use multiple DBs in Redis. So we can install as many Redis instances as the number of DBs we need. This post will show you how to create multiple Redis instance as Windows service on the same Windows server.
Different than Windows Powershell, Powershell Core doesn't use the system proxy setting on Windows. This post will show you an one-line command to set Powershell Core web cmdlets proxy.
Gitlab ships with its own free CICD which works pretty well. This post will give you an example of the CICD file .gitlab-ci.yml for a Python project running on Gitlab Windows runner.
This post will walk you through the steps to migrate Gitlab from one docker container to another. The steps need you to know how to install a new Gitlab container and how to backup and restore Gitlab container, because the migration is just a restoration of a backup to another container.