At Bixoto we used to use Poetry to manage all our Python projects, but we recently started to migrate to uv, which is a lot faster. However, the commands of each tool don’t always match, which can cause some confusion. In this post we provide a partial cheatsheet of the most common commands and their … Read more
At Bixoto we use the TIG stack to monitor our systems. “TIG” stands for “Telegraf, InfluxDB, Grafana”. Telegraf is an agent that collects metrics on your servers and sends it to InfluxDB, a database oriented for real-time data. Then, Grafana reads these data points and renders them with nice graphs and provides some alerting. Of … Read more
At Bixoto, we use a lot of different APIs to interface with suppliers and other services. Today, I was working with an XML API using requests (via api_session) and xmltodict. TL;DR: use requests.post(url, data=my_string.encode(“utf-8”)) and not requests.post(url, data=my_string).Long version below: The simplified code looked like this: This worked great until I called client.hello() with a name that contained accents, such as “Élise”. The API … Read more