# A Brief History of Containers - Jeff Victor & Kir Kolyshkin
Containers are a form of operating system virtualization that is subtly different from virtual machines. The concept has evolved over time, and Jeff & Kir discuss the history of OSV and the roles…

I decided that retirement was boring and have joined the Developer Division at Microsoft. To do what? Too many options to say! But it’ll make using Python better for sure (and not just on Windows :-). There’s lots of open source here. Watch this space.

"There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things." - Phil...

This article looks at why you should document your Python code and how to generate project documentation with Sphinx and OpenAPI.

The C++ standard library contains a rich collection of containers, iterators, and algorithms that can be composed to produce elegant solutions to complex problems. Most importantly, they are fast…

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What is a switch? The switch is a statement that evaluates the accuracy or similarity of the value of a certain input. But isn’t that the same thing that the if statement does? Let’s see this statement starting with bash scripting language.
case EXPRESSION…

Introduction What is tox? Example tox.ini Configuring other packages Why do multiple tools support tox.ini? Bonus Section Introduction I was confused by the Python tool tox for a long time, and was unsure what it was really used for considering lots of different…

Sailboat is a Python developer’s best friend. It’s a Python build tool that can do anything you need it to! It suports a countless number of plugins — you can even make your own. Sailboat is made for anyone, whether you are a beginner on your very first project…

Python on Ubuntu is not always the same speed as Python in the python Docker image. So I ran some benchmarks, so you can pick the fastest.

A songification of that most holiest of Python Enhancement Proposals, the PEP 8.

Based on an idea by Daniel "Mr. Hemlock" Brown.
Written and performed by Leon Sandøy, A.K.A. lemonsaurus.
Music and melody from Mad World by Roland Orzabal. This version was…

Rich has become a popular (20K stars on GH) way of beautifying CLIs, and I'm pleased to see a number of projects using it. Since Rich is mature and battle-tested now, I had considered winding-down development. Until, I saw this tweet: The Tweet Do you want…

If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it— W.C. FieldsHi,