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
Gnocchi 4.3.0 released This new release minor release of Gnocchi has been a bit longer than usual, but here it is!So what's new in this version of Gnocchi? Well, according to the release notes, not
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
Mergify How I stopped merging broken code It's been a while since I moved all my projects to GitHub. It's convenient to host Git projects, and the collaboration workflow is smooth. I love pull requests to merge code. I review
Mergify Stop merging your pull requests manually If there's something that I hate, it's doing things manually when I know I could automate them. Am I alone in this situation? I doubt so. Nevertheless, every day, they are thousands of
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
OpenStack Lessons from OpenStack Telemetry: Incubation It was mostly around that time in 2012 that I and a couple of fellow open-source enthusiasts started working on Ceilometer, the first piece of software from the OpenStack Telemetry project. Six years
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
Ghost On blog migration I've started my first Web page in 1998 and one could say that it evolved quite a bit in the meantime. From a Frontpage designed Web site with frames, it evolved to plain
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
Gnocchi Gnocchi 4.2 release The time of the release arrived. A little more than three months have passed since the latest minor version, 4.1, has been released. There are tons of improvement and a few nice
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
Pastamaker A safe GitHub workflow with Pastamaker When the Gnocchi project decided to move to GitHub, we developers had to move from a Gerrit based workflow to a GitHub pull-request one. This has been challenging in some ways. We were
Books Scaling Python released I am proud to announce today the immediate release of Scaling Python, my second book about Python! It talks about the distribution and performance of applications written in Python, and how to build
Books Scaling Python: the interviewees The release date for Scaling Python is now very close! Today, I'd like to talk a bit about the interviews that I've run those last months that are featured in the book. I'm
Books Mastering PostgreSQL A few months ago, my friend Dimitri Fontaine and I discussed writing books and sharing our knowledge. If you do not know Dimitri yet, he is an old-time PostgreSQL Major Contributor – meaning he
Gnocchi Gnocchi 4.1 is out We did it again. A bit more of our usual four months were needed to do it, but Gnocchi 4.1 has been released. This is a great news and another big milestone
Interview My interview with Cool Python Codes A few days ago, I've recently been contacted by Godson Rapture from Cool Python codes to answer a few questions about what I work on in open source. Godson regularly interview developers and
Gnocchi Gnocchi 4 performance It has been a long time since I have tested Gnocchi performances. Last time was two years ago, on version 2. The current version for Gnocchi is 4.0, released a couple of
Talks Attending PyCon FR 2017 The French edition of the annual Python conference, PyCon FR, will happen in Toulouse from 21st to 24th September. I skipped the last few PyCon FR, but this year I will be back
Gnocchi Gnocchi or Prometheus? The realm of time series database keeps expanding those last years. Now and then a new contender appears from the fog. People keep asking me about the difference between Gnocchi and Prometheus. It's