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Microservices patterns easy

How to Mock a Service Registry in Python with an In-Memory Dict

A lightweight ServiceRegistry class backed by a dict, exposing register, unregister, lookup, list, and health-check methods.

microservices service-registry dictionary
Python
class ServiceRegistry:
    def __init__(self):
        self._services = {}

    def register(self, name, endpoint, version="1.0"):
        self._services[name] = {
            "endpoint": endpoint,
            "version": version,
            "status": "healthy"
        }

    def unregister(self, name):
        return…
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Microservices patterns easy

Retry idempotent GET requests in Python

A Python function that retries an idempotent GET request a fixed number of times with a delay between attempts, raising a RuntimeError only after all retries fail.

retry idempotent urllib
Python
import time
import urllib.error
import urllib.request
from http.client import HTTPException

def fetch_with_retry(url, max_retries=3, delay=1.0):
    for attempt in range(1, max_retries + 1):
        try:
            with urllib.request.urlopen(url, timeout=5) as response:
                return response.read().decode…
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ML engineering pipelines easy

Model registry version mock in Python

A simple in-memory model registry that stores model versions with metadata and supports version listing and latest retrieval.

ml-engineering model-registry versioning
Python
class ModelRegistry:
    def __init__(self):
        self.models = {}

    def register(self, name, version, model_type, metrics=None):
        if name not in self.models:
            self.models[name] = []
        entry = {
            "version": version,
            "model_type": model_type,
            "metrics": m…
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Production deployment patterns easy

How to Mock a Container Registry in Python

Build an in-memory container registry mock with push, tag listing, and manifest retrieval logic for testing deployment tooling.

containers testing mocking
Python
import json
from collections import defaultdict


class MockRegistry:
    def __init__(self):
        self.repositories = defaultdict(dict)

    def push_image(self, repo: str, tag: str, layers: list[str]) -> None:
        self.repositories[repo][tag] = {
            "layers": layers,
            "size": sum(len(layer…
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Production deployment patterns easy

How to Roll Back to a Previous Image Tag in Python

A dataclass-based mock registry that tracks image tag history and rolls back to the previous tag, useful for deployment rollback logic.

rollback deployment dataclass
Python
"""Demonstrates a rollback pattern for a Docker-style image tag registry."""

from dataclasses import dataclass, field


@dataclass
class ImageRegistry:
    """A minimal mock registry tracking current tags per image."""

    tags: dict[str, list[str]] = field(default_factory=dict)

    def push(self, image: str, tag: …
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