Julia vs Python Should we ditch Python and other languages in favor of Julia for technical computing?  That's certainly a thought that comes to mind when one looks at the benchmarks on http://julialang.org/.  Python and other high level languages are way ... (more…)

data_hacks - Command line utilities for data analysis... (more…)

Python has become a popular programming language because of its excellent programmability. Many modern software packages utilize Python for high-level algorithm design and depend on native libraries written in C/C++/Fortran for efficient computation kerne... (more…)

After more than 300 commits and 21 beta releases, pendulum finally reaches itsfirst stable version.

Recently we extended the Datadog Agent to support extracting additional metrics from Kubernetes using the kube-state-metrics via protobufs. In this post we will dive into our experiences with python and protobufs, as well as share some performance data. W... (more…)