Matt Chung

Author: Matt Chung

  • Putting your mentor on a pedestal

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    Last night, I presented (deckslide here) on AWS Lambda at DevOps London Exchange. I really enjoy public speaking, but it wasn’t always that way. In fact, I used to hate it – feared it. I vividly remember an embarassing instance in high school Spanish. My classmate and I had to do a presentation. I got…

  • SpeedCurve Library: Travis CI + coverage + tox

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    I’m writing a python library (speedcurve.py). At work, we’re using SpeedCurve to track our web performance. SpeedCurve’schangelog reveals can trigger a deployment (and a series of tests). I’m replacing our curl+ansible commands with this. I plan on integrating this with slack as well. This project is heavily influenced by github3.py. I’ve been contributing frequently (plan…

  • Implementing Licenses API for github3.py

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    I came across this license issue while searching on GitHub. So, I thought I’d give it a shot. I pinged sigmavirus24 in #github3.py seeing if this was a feature I could implement. He gave the thumbs up and I was off. Testing manually first Before any implementation, I always like to get a better understanding…

  • Contributing to github3.py

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    I’ve always been scared of open sourcing, despite wanting to get involved for a long time? Why? For a long time, I’ve programmed in isolation. But, I did enjoy it. Unfortunately, this leaves little (to none) opportunity for feedback and critism. Afraid of rejection? Afraid of not appearing as smart as I think I am…

  • Mocking boto exception

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    I was getting so frustrated. I knew how to raise the exception with side_effect=. But, how do you mock the exception? try: connection = connect_to_sqs except BotoServerError as m: if m.error_code == “AlreadyExistsException” To get it to work, I inherited the exception class – BotoServerError from boto.exceptions import BotoServerError class MockBotoServerError(BotoServerError): def __init__(self, error_code) self.error_code…