Recently we extended the Datadog Agent to support extracting additional metrics from Kubernetes using the kube-state-metrics via protobufs. In this post we will dive into our experiences with python and protobufs, as well as share some performance data. W... (more…)

A tutorial on simple NLP tasks with Python which serves as an introduction to several libraries: NLTK, spaCy, and Pattern. (more…)

I may be one of the last people you would expect to write an essay criticizing JavaScript, but here we are. Two of my primary areas of… (more…)

Last year, we did a recap with what we thought were the best Python libraries of 2015, which was widely shared within the Python community (see post in r/Python). A year has gone by, and again it is time to give due credit for the awesome work that has be...

Libpython-clj is a library that allows you to use python libraries from the clojure repl. We will dig through the nuts and bolts that make the library tick a... (more…)