PostgreSQL The Art of PostgreSQL is out! If you remember well, a couple of years ago, I wrote about Mastering PostgreSQL, a fantastic book written by my friend Dimitri Fontaine. Dimitri is a long-time PostgreSQL core developer — for example, he
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
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
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
Books Scaling Python is on its way My day-to-day activities are still evolving around the Python programming language, as I continue working on the OpenStack project as part of my job at Red Hat. OpenStack is still the biggest Python
Books AsciiDoc book toolchain released 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
Books The Hacker's Guide to Python 3rd edition is out 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
Interview My interview in le Journal du Hacker A few days ago, the French equivalent of Hacker News, called "Le Journal du Hacker", interviewed me about my work on OpenStack, my job at Red Hat and my self-published book
Interview My interview about software tests and Python I've recently been contacted by Johannes Hubertz, who is writing a new book about Python in German called "Softwaretests mit Python" which will be published by Open Source Press, Munich this
Books The Hacker's Guide to Python, 2nd edition! A year passed since the first release of The Hacker's Guide to Python in March 2014. A few hundreds copies have been distributed so far, and the feedback is wonderful! I already wrote
Books Making of The Hacker's Guide to Python As promised, today I would like to write a bit about the making of The Hacker's Guide to Python. It has been a very interesting experimentation, and I think it is worth sharing
Books The Hacker's Guide to Python released! And done! It took me just 8 months to do this entire book project around Python. From the first day I started writing to today, where I finally publish and sell – almost entirely
Books Announcing The Hacker's Guide to Python I've been hacking on Python for a lot of years now, on various project. For the last two years, I've been heavily involved in OpenStack, which makes an heavy usage of Python. Once
