https://blog.rajpoot.dev/tags/best-practices/ Recent content in Best Practices on Manvendra Rajpoot https://blog.rajpoot.dev/img/personal/cover.png https://blog.rajpoot.dev/img/personal/cover.png Hugo en Manvendra Rajpoot Sun, 17 May 2026 17:50:46 +0530 https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/python/python-type-hints-2026-pep-695-pep-705/ Thu, 30 Apr 2026 11:20:00 +0530 https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/python/python-type-hints-2026-pep-695-pep-705/ Modern Python type hints in 2026 — PEP 695 generics, PEP 705 ReadOnly, TypedDict, Protocol, NewType, and the patterns that survive code review. https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/python/asyncio-patterns-taskgroup-anyio-2026/ Tue, 28 Apr 2026 21:10:00 +0530 https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/python/asyncio-patterns-taskgroup-anyio-2026/ Modern asyncio patterns in Python 3.11+ — TaskGroup, structured concurrency, exception groups, anyio for portable async, and the patterns that survived the asyncio API churn. https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/python/modern-python-tooling-uv-ruff-2026/ Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:30:00 +0530 https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/python/modern-python-tooling-uv-ruff-2026/ The modern Python toolchain has converged in 2026 — uv for packaging, Ruff for lint+format, ty for type-checking. A practical setup that's 10–100× faster than what you used in 2023. https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/fastapi/fastapi-pydantic-v2-sqlalchemy-2-production/ Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:00:00 +0530 https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/fastapi/fastapi-pydantic-v2-sqlalchemy-2-production/ The FastAPI stack worth building on in 2026 — Pydantic v2, async SQLAlchemy 2.0, dependency injection, settings, errors, observability, and the layout that scales past one file. https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/ai/llm-evaluations-test-prompts-agents/ Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:40:00 +0530 https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/ai/llm-evaluations-test-prompts-agents/ A practical, no-fluff guide to evaluating LLM applications — what to measure, how to build a starter eval set, LLM-as-judge done right, and how to wire evals into CI. https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/ai/prompt-engineering-production-patterns/ Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:30:00 +0530 https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/ai/prompt-engineering-production-patterns/ Prompt engineering patterns that hold up in production — system prompts, structured outputs, few-shot, reasoning steps, role separation, and the anti-patterns that look clever but quietly fail. https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/backend/designing-rest-apis-that-dont-suck/ Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:10:00 +0530 https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/backend/designing-rest-apis-that-dont-suck/ An opinionated guide to designing REST APIs — resource modeling, HTTP semantics, status codes, errors, pagination, versioning, and what good looks like. https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/devops/git-workflow-for-solo-developers/ Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:15:00 +0530 https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/devops/git-workflow-for-solo-developers/ A pragmatic Git workflow for solo developers and small teams — branches that aren't theatre, commits that tell a story, rebases without fear, and the recovery commands you'll actually need. https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/fastapi/testing-fastapi-apps/ Tue, 28 Apr 2026 13:55:00 +0530 https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/fastapi/testing-fastapi-apps/ How to test FastAPI applications properly — pytest setup, async test client, database isolation per test, fixtures for auth, and the patterns that scale. https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/python/python-decorators-explained/ Tue, 28 Apr 2026 13:20:00 +0530 https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/python/python-decorators-explained/ Python decorators demystified — what they actually are, how to write your own, and the patterns you'll see in real codebases. https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/python/modern-python-tips/ Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0530 https://blog.rajpoot.dev/posts/python/modern-python-tips/ Practical, modern Python tips drawn from real-world projects — type hints, dataclasses, pathlib, comprehensions, the walrus operator, and more.