Dropbox, to our customers, needs to be a reliable and responsive service. As a company, we’ve had to scale constantly since our start, today serving more than 700M registered users in every time zone on the planet who generate at least 300,000 requests pe... (more…)

This is like a data collection step for a much bigger problem. You might want to do some form of analysis of the stories being posted on HackerNews or see which user has received the most upvotes in the past year. To do anything like that, we need the dat... (more…)

nanobind — Seamless operability between C++17 and Python - GitHub - wjakob/nanobind: nanobind — Seamless operability between C++17 and Python... (more…)

A common situation in asyncio Python programs is asynchronous initialization. Some resource must be initialized exactly once before it can be used, but the initialization itself is asynchronous — such as an asyncpg database. Let’s talk about a couple of s... (more…)

In my previous blog posts “Sprint Velocity, What is it good for?” and “Better Sprint Planning with Bayes”, I talked about using statistics… (more…)