IntroductionIn this post, I want to look at the biggest strengths and weaknesses of Python, with more emphasis on the weaknesses, just because these problems have been there for years now and some of the rough edges bleed a lot. The Good – Where Python Sh…

Firebird SQL: The true open-source relational database…

I was writing a lambda function which, among other things, was supposed to read a csv file from S3, perform some validation on every row, then use boto3 to perform an S3 multipart upload. I created a wrapper class around the multipart upload functionality…

Years ago, OpenBSD gained two new security system calls, pledge(2) (originally tame(2)) and unveil. In both, an application surrenders capabilities at run-time. The idea is to perform initialization like usual, then drop capabilities before handling untru…

I was writing a lambda function which, among other things, was supposed to read a csv file from S3, perform some validation on every row, then use boto3 to perform an S3 multipart upload. I created a wrapper class around the multipart upload functionality…

I’ll show you what good logging is with real-life examples. Most people don’t know what to log, so they end up creating just noise….

This book contains exercises and answers to learn the Python programming language. Programming is something you best learn by doing and that's why exercises are a great way to learn the Python programming language. Python is a widely popular progr…

Why efficient Python? Because using Python more efficiently will make your code more readable and run more efficiently.

Compress, decompress and manage archives and files with Python in all the formats you might ever need…