What's up in the python and tech environment? - Issue #68
Welcome to issue #68 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 Mojo, a new programming language, Wagtail, data analysis in Python, micro-services, web development, and much more 🤓
From the Python world
Last week, a new programming language, Mojo, was presented to the World and this video summarizes what we can expect from it. It is intended to be compatible with Python and fast. It is created by the author of the Swift programming language and the LLVM toolchain.
Note: the language is not yet open to the public, to test it, you will need to register for a waitlist. 🙂
Wagtail, a Python CMS based on Django released its next major version with dark mode and SVG support among other features.
Come Over to the Dark Side with Wagtail 5.0
An interesting article presenting some libraries that complements the use of spreadsheets.
Wall Street's Transition from Excel to Python
Some useful and unknown libraries for data analysis.
10 Hidden Python Libraries Programmers Must Use in 2023
A guide on libraries you can use to create, manipulate and analyze PDFs.
The Python PDF Ecosystem in 2023
Here is a presentation of Taipy, another low-code framework to build web applications in Python with a focus on data applications.
How to Use Taipy and Taipy GUI in Python Applications
A great tutorial to work algorithms by solving a maze game.
Build a Maze Solver in Python Using Graphs
A draft PEP to use a module like a callable. What do you think?
From the Web
An engineer from Amazon Prime Video explained how his team changed the architecture of one of their projects from a micro-service / serverless application to the old monolith application. This solved their scalability and cost issues.
This is a bit surprising from an Amazon engineer considering that Amazon Web Services (AWS) has often touted the benefits of flexibility and cost of serverless. And you, do you think there is too much hype around the concepts of micro-service and serverless?
Scaling up the Prime Video audio/video monitoring service and reducing costs by 90%
I discovered in this blog post that there is an attempt to standardize error messages for our REST1 JSON APIs. What do you think?
Structured error messages for HTTP APIs
A list of great API documentation tools.
Best API documentation tools you need
Five websites worth looking for a web developer.
As A Developer, Here Are 5 Websites You’ll Love
In this article, you will learn a new media query to detect if JavaScript is disabled with only CSS.
New on the web: How to detect disabled JavaScript in CSS
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 it is the case, don’t hesitate to share it on your social media.
Take care of yourself and see you soon! 🙂