Python is slow, and compiled languages like Rust, C, or C++ are fast. So when your application is too slow, rewriting some of your code in a compiled extension can seem like the natural approach to speeding things up. Unfortunately, compiled extensions ar... (more…)
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If you’re a Python developer—and since you’re reading this, you probably are—you’ve almost certainly used Redis and thought it was a great cache. (That was my first impression, too.) And Redis does make a great cache. But it turns out that Redis can solve... (more…)
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Code2Prompt is a powerful command-line tool that simplifies the process of providing context to Large Language Models (LLMs) by generating a comprehensive Markdown file containing the content of yo... (more…)
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Here’s a brief introduction to each big data programming language, as well as some ideas about applications where one may be more suitable than the others.
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