For a couple of years now, I have really been fascinated by the subject of code quality. There are many books and blog posts on code quality and how to improve it. I have read all of them. …

The term service discovery is likely not new to you. The term is at least as old as google search trends data. Service discovery can mean a lot of things, and if you look it up on wikipedia, you get a list of many different protocols and technologies for service…

A lot of people talk about the Python Global Interpreter Lock (GIL for short) and how it is “hindering” to python, or their application, or some other thing. Some people talk about how its silly, or unneeded, behind the times, or really ruins things. There are projects trying to write…

A rant on sacrificing performance for productivity. — I’m taking a break from my discussion on asyncio in Python to talk about something that has been on my mind recently: the speed of Python. For those who don’t know, I am somewhat of a Python fanboy, and I aggressively use Python everywhere I can. One of the biggest…

Adventures in Python Land — A lot of talk has been happening in the python community about asyncio. Asynchronous programming is the new hot thing in python. In my last post I talked about how to do asynchronous programming and what it is, but in this post we will cover whether or not it’s worth…

Await the Future — Asynchronous programming in python has become more and more popular lately. There are many different libraries in python for doing asynchronous programming. One of these libraries is asyncio, which is a python standard library added in Python 3.4. Asyncio is part of the reason asynchronous programming is becoming more popular…