To support our migration to microservices we needed to find a new tech stack. Learn how we compared all the options and chose Kotlin... (more…)

I have a bit of a love and hate relationship with bash. I spend a lot of time in the terminal, and bash is my default "programming language". Sometimes I tell people that find, grep and xargs run their infrastructure, and they laugh and laugh until they r... (more…)

Two malicious Python libraries have been caught stealing SSH and GPG keys from developers over the past year. (more…)

Python’s context managers are great for resource management and stopping the propagation of leaked abstractions. You’ve probably used it while opening a file or a database connection. Usually it starts with a with statement like this: (more…)

Do you need a web framework? If you need to draw a graph, you can return JSON and draw on the client with JavaScript, an approach known as JAMStack. If the graph is static, you can return a PNG image. Which web framework is right for me? I have used every... (more…)