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Hadoop is mostly written in Java, but that doesn't exclude the use of other programming languages with this distributed storage and processing framework, particularly Python. With this concise book, you'll learn how to use Python with the Hadoop Distribut...

Lately Grumpy has received some attention on reddit. YouTube Engineering showed a blog plost (Grumpy) which apparently proved that grumpy scaled much better then CPython on a Fibonacci benchmark. I felt like repeating this microbenchmark with Python to ch...

Use Spokestack's keyword recognizer model and Python library to help save up for a rainy day. (more…)

A function is a block of code that performs an operation usually a specific task. Functions help break our program into smaller and modular chunks, making them resusable and redable. They prevent repetition of code. You can pass data known as parameters... (more…)