Python + Memcached: Efficient Caching in Distributed Applications When writing Python applications, caching is important. Using a cache to avoid recomputing data or accessing a slow database can provide you with a great performance boost.Python offers built-in possibilities for caching,
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Python Serious Python released! Today I'm glad to announce that my new book, Serious Python, has been released.However, you wonder… what is Serious Python?Well, Serious Python is the the new name of The Hacker's Guide
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Python A multi-value syntax tree filtering in Python A while ago, we've seen how to write a simple filtering syntax tree with Python. The idea was to provide a small abstract syntax tree with an easy to write data structure that
Python The Best flake8 Extensions for your Python Project In the last blog post about coding style, we dissected what the state of the art was regarding coding style check in Python.As we've seen, Flake8 is a wrapper around several tools
Mergify More GitHub workflow automation The more you use computers, the more you see the potentials for automating everything. Who doesn't love that? By building Mergify those last months, we've decided it was time bring more automation to
Python Code Style Checks in Python After starting your first Python project, you might realize that it is actually not that obvious to be consistent with the way you write Python code. If you collaborate with other developers, your
Python High-Performance in Python with Zero-Copy and the Buffer Protocol Whatever your programs are doing, they often have to deal with vast amounts of data. This data is usually represented and manipulated in the form of strings. However, handling such a large quantity
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Python Starting your first Python project There's a gap between learning the syntax of the Python programming language and being able to build a project from scratch. When you finish reading your first tutorial or book about Python, you're
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Python A simple filtering syntax tree in Python Working on various pieces of software those last years, I noticed that there's always a feature that requires implementing some DSL. The problem with DSL is that it is never the road that
Python Correct HTTP scheme in WSGI with Cloudflare I've recently been using Cloudflare as an HTTP frontend for some applications, and getting things working correctly with WSGI was unobvious. In Python, WSGI is the standard protocol to write a Web application.
OpenStack Lessons from OpenStack Telemetry: Deflation This post is the second and final episode of Lessons from OpenStack Telemetry. If you have missed the first post, you can read it here. Splitting At some point, the rules relaxed on
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Python Is Python a Good Choice for Entreprise Projects? A few weeks ago, one of my followers, Morteza, reached out and asked me the following: I develop projects mostly with Python, but I am scared that Python is not a good choice
Gnocchi Gnocchi engine optimization Software speed is relative. After all, it is the result of a set of trade-offs made between the ease of programming and the speed of hardware. The comfort of the developer and its
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Python Scaling a polling Python application with tooz This article is the final one of the series I wrote about scaling a large number of connections in a Python application. If you don't remember what the problem we're trying to solve
Python Scaling a polling Python application with asyncio This article is a follow-up of my previous blog post about scaling a large number of connections. If you don't remember, I was trying to solve one of my followers' problem: It so
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Python Scaling a polling Python application with parallelism A few weeks ago, Alon contacted me and asked me the following: It so happened that I'm currently working on scaling some Python app. Specifically, now I'm trying to figure out the best
