What's up in the python and tech environment? - Issue #201
Welcome to issue #201 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 be discussing Django and FastAPI, as well as Chonkie — a library for RAG applications — and testing code performance in Python. We will also be covering an open-source drama with an OpenClaw bot, the death of Heroku, PHP and brokers, terminal applications in Ruby, and handling Kubernetes with AI. There will be much more besides! 🤓
From The Python World
An opinionated list of top Python libraries in 2025.
A tutorial showing how to migrate from Celery to Django tasks.
Migrating From Celery to Django Tasks
A nice quiz to learn more about Django.
This tutorial presents a library to rate-limit your FastAPI applications.
How I Protect My FastAPI APIs from Abuse
An introduction to Chonkie, a useful library for your RAG applications.
An excellent article on how to test code performance.
Unit testing your code’s performance, part 1: Big-O scaling
A digest tutorial on regular expressions in Python.
Koan 17: The Watchman at the Gate
An introduction to a nice profiling library to target specific functions.
Python: introducing tprof, a targeting profiler
Another TUI similar to Harlequin to handle databases in the terminal.
This is a project designed to collect statistics about your Django endpoints while you are testing them.
Django-Mercury-Performance-Testing
From The Web
This blog post presents a strategy to migrate a (web) service from one stack to another.
Tap compare testing for service migration
A new drama has unfolded in the tech world: an OpenClaw bot opened a pull request that was rejected for violating the project's guidelines, and the bot then wrote an article attacking the library's maintainer. What are your thoughts on all this?
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me
Is Heroku dead? Here, the author seems to say yes, and you, what do you think?
Heroku Is (Finally, Officially) Dead
Another article discussing the death of Heroku.
This article presents alternatives to MinIO, which is now in maintenance mode.
An article that highlights the versatility of PostgreSQL.
Kafka vs Postgres? just use postgres
This short guide presents a library to integrate a message broker in PHP.
Message Brokers in PHP: From Hundreds of Lines to Just a Few
A Ruby port of the excellent Charm project to write beautiful terminal user interfaces.
A developer tries to define what a senior developer is. What do you think?
What Actually Makes You Senior
This article presents a nice way to handle your Kubernetes commands with AI.
Running Ollama + kubectl‑ai Locally
Bonus
To start the week well, I am sharing the following picture with you.
This is all for this week. I hope you enjoy it, and if so, don’t hesitate to share it on your social media.
Take care of yourself and see you soon! 🙂