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How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engineers
Instagram scaled from 0 to 14 million users in just over a year, from October 2010 to December 2011. They did this with only 3 engineers.
They did this by following 3 key principles and having a reliable tech stack.
LaunchFlow - Docs
Another IfC solution; native to Python.
A Complete Guide To Behavior-Driven Testing With Pytest BDD
A comprehensive guide to getting started with BDD testing with pytest.
Remove the "Authority" from Packaging - Packaging - Discussions on Python.org
Turns out the A in PyPA, meaning "authority", was originally intended as a joke. TIL.
Rye and uv: August is Harvest Season for Python Packaging
Blog post about the state of Python packaging in 2024, with a particular emphasis on how uv is going (and in part rye too).
Python Magic (AKA Dunder, Special) Methods
List of Python dunder methods.
Remi - Python GUI library
Python library for developing GUI applications
Write yourself a git
Learn how git works, by writing a git.
How to Create Custom Django Management Commands
Good background to making management commands for Django applications, includes information on how you add your own arguments.
Pairwise Sequence Alignment using Biopython – Towards Data Science
Short introduction to pairwise alignment using BioPython.
Why I'm not collaborating with Kenneth Reitz — njs blog
Blog post about problems behind the funding of requests3, plus serious issues with the author. Chimes somewhat with the questionable behaviour I have seen in pipenv issues.
GitHub - sdispater/poetry: Python dependency management and packaging made easy.
Possible replacement for pipenv. Seems to do a lot of what I would need, and perhaps some more; but also appears to be missing some things I do find useful about pipenv.
For example: I do like how pipenv sweeps up the whole venv thing in what feels like a sensible way. poetry doesn't appear to handle that sort of thing (by design, as far as I can tell).
Various intersphinx mappings for Python libraries.
Handy list of intersphinx mappings for various popular Python libraries.
A Failed Experiment with Python Type Annotations – Musing Mortoray
Blog post that does a good job of outlining some of the issues I have too with type checking in Python.
See the following for some correction of what's said: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20159153
Use __main__.py in Python | shaneoneill.io
For some reason I'd not picked up on this since getting back into Python. Could be seriously handy.
Building Standalone Python Applications with PyOxidizer
Blog post about a newly-released project that aims to make it easier to build and deploy standalone Python applications.
Matlab vs. Julia vs. Python | Toby Driscoll
Nice article comparing Matlab, Python and Julia. Not sure I 100% agree with it all, but it made for interesting reading.
Kivy: Cross-platform Python Framework for NUI Development
Library that provides a cross-platform application framework for Python. Works with many operating systems.
Python consumes a lot of memory or how to reduce the size of objects? / Habr
Interesting article about the size of data structures in Python.
RaGOO/setup.py at master · malonge/RaGOO
Setup for a Python tool I found on GitHub, which is a library and also scripts. This might serve as a good template for pydscheck, as I'd like to get it properly packaged.
Fish shell support · Issue #32 · pyenv/pyenv
Issue regarding adding Fish support to pyenv. A very old issue now, but useful in that it details how to configure your shell and why you do it the way you do.
How can I use Django permissions without defining a content type or model? - Stack Overflow
Nice answer to the question: how do I make a permission that I can assign to users and groups, in Django, without needing to create a model in the database.
MySQL and storing emoji: proper utf8mb4 with Django | exana.io
The MySQL unicode issue as seen from a Django point of view.
python - PyLint "Unable to import" error - how to set PYTHONPATH? - Stack Overflow
Very handy solution to the problem of making a project you're working on available to its own tests. While this tends not to be an issue for linting from the command line (I use a Makefile and sort the PYTHONPATH when doing the linting), but from within Emacs with flycheck it can be more awkward.
The Incredible Disaster of Python 3 | The Changelog
The Fundamental Problem in Python 3 | The Changelog
Advanced usage of Python requests - timeouts, retries, hooks
Great article that discusses some useful advanced uses of requests.
Things you're probably not using in Python 3 - but should
Handy little post that details some of the real headline changes that have taken place in "recent" generations of Python 3. I'm happy to say that I make use of a good few of these already.
Conventions for Command Line Options
Excellent blog post about the conventions normally used for CLI options; and also why Python's argument parser gets it wrong.