Python really is everywhere at this point. Although many gatekeepers argue whether a person is really a software developer if they don’t code in a language more difficult than Python, it still is everywhere. It’s used to automate, manage websites, analyze... (more…)

At Datadog, we're really into metrics. We love them, we store them, but we also generate them. To do that, you need to juggle with integers that are incremented, also known as counters. While having an integer that changes its value sounds dull, it might ... (more…)

This article explains the new features in Python 3.7, compared to 3.6. (more…)

Legacy code is bad and if you keep using it, it's really your own fault. There are many variations of the same thing floating around in Open Source communities and it always comes down to the same thing: at one point something is being declared old and it... (more…)

"Test-Driven Web Development with Python" aims to teach TDD for web programming. It uses a concrete example -- the development of a website, from scratch -- to explain the TDD metholology and how it applies to building web applications. It covers the Sel...