Monitoring Azure Experiments

Azure Cloud is a popular work environment for many data scientists, yet many features remain poorly documented. This note shows how to monitor Azure experiments in a more handy and detailed way than through web or cl interface. The trick is to create a dashborad of experiments and their respective runs, up to a desired …

Repo Passwords in Poetry

Poetry, a popular Python package manager, prefers to use keyring to manage passwords for private code repositories. Storing passwords in plain text is a secondary option, but may be needed in case of either issues in poetry itself or with keyring configuration (may not be properly installed, be locked etc). To disable the use of …

Marking Python Tests as Optional

Often code tests are to be run on special demand, rather than in a CI/CD manner: for instance, they may be slow or work only in a local mode with protected data. This note shows how to declare code tests optional in pytest, the leading testing framework for Python. The article is inspired by the …