As I’m preparing for a project that will involve Python programming, I need to get up to speed with at least a basic level of Python mastery. However, I’m not a big fan of using the interactive Python REPL, or whatever it is actually called:

Each day, over 95 million photos and videos are shared on Instagram. The unstoppable photo-centric social media platform has over 600 million registered users — 400 million of whom are active every day. Talk about operating at scale: Instagram kills it at... (more…)

Is it possible to hit a million requests per second with Python? Probably not until recently.

Last week I wanted to scrape my Tweets for the past few days. It was pretty straightforward to do with Python and I wanted to share my notes. Side note: I must say that Python is AWESOME! Even thou…

Nine months ago, I decided to undertake some side projects in order to earn extra money after learning that my wife was pregnant with our… (more…)