What's up in the python and tech environment? - Issue #84
Welcome to issue #84 of “What’s up in the Python and tech environment?”.
This newsletter is mainly intended for developers and those passionate about computers.
This week we will discuss generative AI, Coiled API, Rust IDE by JetBrains, Textual, Cloud providers, and more! 🤓
From the Python world
In this blog post, you will learn how to create a generative question-answering assistant with data science libraries for free. 😉
🦜️ LangChain + Streamlit🔥+ Llama 🦙: Bringing Conversational AI to Your Local Machine 🤯
An interesting article on how to use the ctypes standard library to bind C libraries.
Python, foreign functions and Steam
An awesome Django ORM cheat sheet.
Django ORM Cheatsheet: Mastering Database Operations in Django
Here you will see a list of useful functions from the standard library functools.
Python: Unleashing the Magic (5 — functools)
In the following link, you will find a list of GUI frameworks to use in Python.
The Top 10 Python GUI Frameworks — Detailed Comparison
An interesting comparison of sorting algorithms and how to implement them in Python.
Comparison of Sorting Algorithms
Continuing with sorting, this excellent article gives many tips on how to sort iterables in Python.
Maintaining order for the Python crowd
In the following blog post, you will learn how to automatically run a large workload on AWS or GCP with little effort using Coiled API and DuckDB.
Process Hundreds of GBs of Data with Coiled Functions and DuckDB
The team working on Textual recently released Textual-web to run your Terminal User Interface (TUI) on the web.
The team behind Flet, a framework for writing multiplatform applications announced their roadmap for the end of the year.
Roadmap: September 2023 - January 2024
From the Web
JetBrains announced a Rust IDE.
Introducing RustRover – A Standalone Rust IDE by JetBrains
An interesting article on the current deviations that can be observed on certain websites, in particular, related to the habits of using to want to make cross-platform applications such as Flutter and React Native allow it.
In the next two articles, you will find some JavaScript tips and tricks.
Tricks With JavaScript
My Top 10 Favorite JavaScript Tips and Tricks
An excellent article on testing strategies.
Pyramid or Crab? Find a testing strategy that fits
Some tips to save money when using AWS serverless platform.
Save money on Serverless: common costly mistakes and how to avoid them
A developer shares his experience migrating a 3 TB PostgreSQL database from AWS to Azure.
How I Migrated a 3 TB PostgreSQL Transactional Database
An interesting article about license models used in projects.
What’s the deal with Open Source, Open Data, and Open Standards licenses?
Bonus
To start the week well I am sharing with you the following picture.

This is all for this week. I hope you enjoy it and if that is the case, don’t hesitate to share it on your social media.
Take care of yourself and see you soon! 🙂