Harry Percival has completed his second book, "Architecture Patterns with Python".
So of course we talk about the book, also known as "Cosmic Python".
We also discuss lots of testing topics, especially related to larger systems and systems involving third party interfaces and APIs.

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Harry's new book, "Architecture Patterns with Python". a.k.a. Cosmic Python
TDD : Test Driven Development
Test Pyramid
Tradeoffs of different architectural choices
Mocks and their pitfalls
Avoiding mocks
Separating conceptual business logic
Dependency injection
Dependency inversion
Identifying external dependencies
Interface adapters to mimize the exposed surface area of external dependencies
London School vs Classic/Detroit School of TDD
Testing strategies for testing external REST APIs

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102: Cosmic Python, TDD, testing and external dependencies - Harry Percival