In this post, I show how to create a menu with Pygame, using the Game Loop pattern. (more…)

Python is one of the most popular programming languages today. It’s an interpreted and high-level language with elegant and readable syntax. However, Python is generally significantly slower than Java, C#, and especially C, C++, or Fortran. Sometimes perf... (more…)

I’ve been itching to write this article since I authored Python vs Copy on Write last year. To recap, I found myself awake at 4 AM trying to performance tune the cache on a long running ETL w…...

The Portable Document Format (PDF) was invented in the early 1990s and it’s still thriving. But PDFs are mainly for humans – not machines. So it’s often hard to... (more…)

In this article we see how to use Spark Streaming from Python to process data from Kafka. Jupyter Notebooks are used to make the prototype code available.