A survey of how tech projects run across the industry highlights Scrum being absent from Big Tech. Why is this, and are there takeaways others should take note of?

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I occasionally hear people lament that Python is "bloated", "too big", "going
enterprise", or some other phrasing to suggest there was once an "ideal" version
of Python that had less bloat and was closer to what the person wanted.

But then this lament is…

A close look at five pytest fixture patterns that will teach you just how much you can accomplish with pytest’s fixtures decorator

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Bound version constraints (upper caps) are starting to show up in the Python
ecosystem. This is causing real world problems with
libraries following this recommendation, and is likely to continue to …

Rich is a Python library for rich text and beautiful formatting in the terminal. - Textualize/rich

How do you make your Django app fast? You measure what is slow, scale your system when necessary, and use a combination of fast database queries and strategic caching. In this Understand Django article, we'll explore those topics and more to help you get…

Read in Japanese thanks to the folks at POSTD.

Já faz alguns anos que eu estou trabalhando com modelagem de sistemas. Em alguns lugares chamam isso de “arquitetura”, mas uma colega arquiteta (CREA e “talz”) me explicou que não é muito adequado …

15 language-agnostic, actionable tips on REST API design

I’ve been programming since 1999. This year I’ve officially coded for 20+ years. I’ve started with Basic but soon jumped into Pascal and C…

Read through your most complicated SQL files to learn the humans story of how your organization functions.

After needing to do a deep dive on the venv module (which I will explain later in this blog post as to why), I thought I would explain how virtual environments work to help demystify them.


Why do virtual environments exist?

Back in my the day, there was…

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