Data queries written in Python, a commonly used programming language, can grind data analytics platforms to a crawl, but a new platform developed by researchers from Brown and MIT may finally solve the Python efficiency problem. (more…)

Soon after joining Microsoft, Guido van Rossum has returned to his roots, hoping to find ways of making Python run faster. (more…)

asyncio is all the rage these days in Python because we can write high performance io code in a single thread. While there are a lot of tutorials on asyncio library itself, there is little explanat... (more…)

Recently I read Itamar Turner-Trauring's It’s time to stop using Python 3.7 (via). On the one hand, this is pragmatic advice, because as the article mentions Python 3.7 is reaching its end of life as of June 2023. On the other hand it gives me feelings, a... (more…)

Combining OpenWhisk’s function-as-a-service approach with the ubiquity and strength of Python 3 provides developers exciting new… (more…)