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Designing a Food Menu App in Python

By Emmanuel Ogbiyoyo. Updated Sat Mar 01 2025

In the food and beverage industry, a key differentiator is restaurants' ability to offer a highly customizable menu. 

Today, customers expect flexibility in their orders, whether they choose pizza toppings, sandwich bread, or dish spice levels. 

To meet these demands, modern menu systems must support complex structures like product modifiers, modifier groups, and even nested relationships between them.

Designing a Food Menu App in Python

This article provides a detailed guide on designing such a system using a relational database model. We’ll explore the relationships between products, modifiers, and modifier groups and demonstrate how to implement this design using SQLAlchemy and SQLModel, two powerful Python libraries for database management.

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3 Powerful Features in Rust's Reqwest Library

By Ugochukwu Chizaram Omumusinachi. Updated Sat Feb 22 2025
3 Powerful Features in Rust's Reqwest Library

This crate is widely used to make HTTP requests in Rust, and in this article we will discuss three impressive additions in this crate, namely: JSON handling, multipart forms, and streaming capabilities

Asynchronous Recursion In rust

By Ugochukwu Chizaram Omumusinachi. Updated Fri Feb 21 2025
Asynchronous Recursion In rust

However, unlike in languages like Python or JavaScript, building recursive functions can be more challenging due to Rust’s strict memory safety guarantees. This is even more apparent when trying to make recursion asynchronous.

Spring Core vs. Spring Boot: Everything You Need to Know

By Ayush Shrivastava. Updated Thu Jan 16 2025
Spring Core vs. Spring Boot: Everything You Need to Know

Spring Core and Spring Boot are key components of the Spring Framework. While Spring Core provides the foundational tools for Java application development, Spring Boot simplifies the process by offering pre-configured setups. Understanding their differences helps developers choose the right tool for building efficient, scalable, and modern applications.

What are Microservices?

By Solomon Eseme. Updated Thu Sep 05 2024
What are Microservices?

Microservices are an architectural style where a large, complex application is broken down into smaller, independent services that communicate with each other through APIs. Each service is responsible for a specific business capability or function, and they work together to form the overall system.

Top 5 Best Backend Bootcamps and Why (2024)

By Solomon Eseme. Updated Wed Jun 26 2024
Top 5 Best Backend Bootcamps and Why (2024)

With numerous options, finding a coding and backend developer bootcamp offering a comprehensive curriculum, experienced instructors, and strong career support is essential. Here are the top 5 best backend developers and coding bootcamps and why they stand out.

Axum Framework: The Ultimate Guide (2023)

By Solomon Eseme. Updated Sun Dec 17 2023
Axum Framework: The Ultimate Guide (2023)

This is the most comprehensive tutorial on the Axum framework online.

This article will explore Rust's Axum framework, a powerful and efficient tool for building web applications.

We'll dive into the basics of Axum, its key features, and how to get started with backend web development using this framework.

Rocket: The Ultimate Guide (2023)

By Solomon Eseme
Rocket: The Ultimate Guide (2023)

This is the most comprehensive tutorial on the Rocket framework online.

In this Rocket tutorial, you will learn Rocket from scratch to an advanced level.

You will learn how to build and deploy your first Rocket app.

Actix Web: The Ultimate Guide (2023)

By Solomon Eseme. Updated Sun Dec 17 2023
Actix Web: The Ultimate Guide (2023)

This is the most comprehensive tutorial on the Actix Web framework online.

In this Actix Web tutorial, you will learn Actix Web from scratch to an advanced level.

You will learn how to build and deploy your first Actix Web app.

Getting Started with Docker for Python Developers

By Marvellous Kalu. Updated Sat Dec 09 2023
Getting Started with Docker for Python Developers

For Python developers, docker enables them to package their applications along with their dependencies, necessary libraries, and runtime and ensures they run consistently across various environments from development to production. This fosters seamless collaboration and simplifies deployment and the overall development workflow.

Parameterized Testing with Pytest and Selenium

By Marvellous Kalu. Updated Fri Nov 24 2023
Parameterized Testing with Pytest and Selenium

Parameterized testing is a software testing technique in which the same test case runs multiple input data sets. Each input data here is referred to as a parameterized test case. In this tutorial, we will perform parameterization testing using Pytest and Selenium.