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System design patterns easy

How to Build a Simple Service Discovery Registry in Python

A lightweight in-memory service registry class using a dict — register, deregister, and discover services with host, port, and version.

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

    def register(self, name, host, port, version="1.0"):
        self._services[name] = {
            "host": host,
            "port": port,
            "version": version
        }

    def deregister(self, name):
        return self._servic…
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Microservices patterns easy

How to Build a Health Check Service Registry in Python

Build a minimal Python service registry that handles registration, deregistration, health checks, and service listing in one simple class.

microservices health-check service-discovery
Python
import random
import time


class ServiceRegistry:
    def __init__(self):
        self.services = {}

    def register(self, name, address):
        self.services[name] = {
            "address": address,
            "status": "healthy",
            "registered_at": time.time(),
            "checks": 0
        }
    …
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Microservices patterns easy

How to Build an In-Memory Service Registry Mock in Python

A simple in-memory ServiceRegistry class to register, retrieve, list, and unregister microservice endpoints or configs using a dict, with KeyError guards.

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

    def register(self, name, service):
        self._services[name] = service

    def unregister(self, name):
        if name not in self._services:
            raise KeyError(f"Service '{name}' not found")
        del self._services[name]

 …
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Microservices patterns easy

How to Mock a Schema Registry Avro Record in Python

Encode a Python dict into Avro binary using an inline schema, mimicking a schema registry record for tests or mocks.

avro schema-registry serialization
Python
import io
from avro.schema import parse
from avro.io import DatumWriter, BinaryEncoder

schema_json = """
{
  "type": "record",
  "name": "User",
  "fields": [
    {"name": "name", "type": "string"},
    {"name": "age", "type": "int"},
    {"name": "email", "type": ["null", "string"], "default": null}
  ]
}
"""

schem…
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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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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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