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Writing a book is a big undertaking. You have to think about what you will actually write, the content, its organization, the examples you want to show, illustrations, etc.

When publishing with the help of a regular editor, your job stops there at writing – and that's already a big and hard enough task. Your editor will handle the publishing process, leaving you free of the printing task. Though they might have their own set of requirements, such as making you work with a word processing tool (think LibreOffice Writer or Microsoft Word).

When working with timestamps, one question that often arises is the precision of those timestamps. Most software is good enough with a precision up to the second, and that's easy. But in some cases, like working on metering, a finer precision is required.

A few weeks ago, I recorded an interview with Krishnan Raghuram about what was discussed for this development cycle for OpenStack Telemetry at the Austin summit.

Three years after my definitive guide on Python classic, static, class and abstract methods, it seems to be time for a new one. Here, I would like to dissect and discuss Python exceptions.

During the OpenStack summit a few weeks ago, I had the chance to talk to some people about my experience on running open source projects. It turns out that after hanging out in communities and contributing to many projects for years, I may be able to provide some hindsight and an external eye to many of those who are new to it.

Last week was the sixth edition of the Paris Monitoring Meetup, where I was invited as a speaker to present and talk about Gnocchi.

Exactly a year ago, I released the second edition of my book The Hacker's Guide to Python. One more time, it has been a wonderful release and I received a lot of amazing feedback from my readers all over this year.

It's again that time of the year, where we all fly out to a different country to chat about OpenStack and what we'll do during the next 6 months. This time, it was in Austin, TX and we chatted about the new Newton release that will be out in October.

A little less than 2 months after our latest major release, here is the new minor version of Gnocchi, stamped 2.1.0. It was a smooth release, but with one major feature implemented by my fellow fantastic developer Mehdi Abaakouk: the ability to create resource types dynamically.

There's a lot of situation where you end up needing a software deployed temporarily. This can happen when testing something manually, when running a script or when launching a test suite.