Our previous attend to compare performances of Python implementations for protocol buffers and thrift serializations has generated interesting feedback and suggestions. The main request we received was to try to broaden the coverage of the previous benchmark so as to cover the full range of available options…
We are not ...
When in need to get two software processes to exchange datas, some sort of protocol is necessary to define how to encode/decode the datas to be transported. A large number of serialization formats are available (json, xml, ASN.1…) so as to tackle the cross process/cross programming language ...
Writing efficient UnitTest to validate that your code performs as expected is a difficult endeavor. Lot has been written about the benefits of Test Driven development and on how to best approach testing, and lot can be learned reading the available litterature. One thing however that we don’t see ...
One of the postgres feature we have been laking the most when working with the Django ORM is the lake of direct support for postgres schemas. In the past we tried several roads to explicitely target other schemas than public when creating or accessing the database structures required by our ...
Twisted provides various ways to integrate CPU bound operations or blocking libraries to the reactor. It provides very clean integration path for threading or external processes.
In this post, we describe an under documented alternative, where the long running task is implemented using an iterator that will be consumed directly ...