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User-defined types in Python allow you to communicate domain-specific knowledge to your users and fellow engineers.

Apache Spark is an open-source, distributed computing system designed for processing and analyzing large-scale data. It was initially…

We briefly compare common options (Lambda, EC2, Fargate, Modal) and then pitch a new contender: Coiled Run.

Web Scraping, also known as “Crawling” or “Spidering,” is a technique for web harvesting, which means collecting or extracting data from…

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The Box Platform publishes events that can subscribed by applications. These events relate to any actions performed by either normal or…

In this tutorial, you'll preview one of the upcoming features of Python 3.12, which introduces a new f-string syntax formalization and implementation. The new implementation lifts some restrictions and limitations that affect f-string literals in Python versions…

When trying to improve a slow function or module, it’s always a good idea to profile it. Here’s a snippet for quickly profiling a section of code with Python’s cProfile module, in two flavours. It’s adapted from the cProfile documentation’s Profile example.…

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Posting for the whole Steering Council, on the subject of @colesbury’s PEP 703 (Making the Global Interpreter Lock Optional in CPython). Thank you, everyone, for responding to the poll on the no-GIL proposal. It’s clear that the overall sentiment is positive…

Vector databases are all the rage today.

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Are you getting the most out of your Postgres database? What features could you leverage to improve your Python project? This week on the show, Craig Kerstiens from Crunchy Data is here to discuss getting the most out of Postgres.

Textual is a TUI framework for Python, inspired by modern web development.

In this article we generate mazes using jupyter notebooks, numpy, matplotlib, and the scikit-image flood_fill function. Almost since I could first draw I’ve been fascinated with creating and solving mazes. Graph paper and mechanical pencils were some of my…

Text editors can be an interesting challenge to program. The types of problems that text editors need to solve can range from trivial to mind-bogglingly difficult. Recently, I have been on something of a spiritual journey to rework some internal data structures…

This article looks at how to perform GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE AJAX requests in Django with the Fetch API and jQuery.