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…)

There is a vast constellation of tools and platforms for processing and analyzing your data. In this episode Matthew Rocklin talks about how Dask fills the gap between a task oriented workflow tool and an in memory processing framework, and how it brings ...

[This question was asked at Quora and Louis Cyphre wrote a great answer. Published with permission.]... (more…)

Erik Max Francis wrote: > "Brandon J. Van Every" wrote: >> What's better about Ruby than Python?  I'm sure there's something. >> What is it? > Wouldn't it make much more sense to ask Ruby people this, rather than > Python people?... (more…)

There have been a few recent articles reflecting on the current status of the Python packaging ecosystem from an end user perspective, so it seems worthwhile for me to write-up my perspective as one of the lead architects for that ecosystem on how I chara... (more…)