Recently, I had to use Redis for the first time. I heard of it, but never really played with it. But this time I had no choice, and I don’t regret it at all, Redis is awesome. But having a new component means that I had to discover from scratch how to tes... (more…)

Efficient geo-spatial radius queries on a given dataset are a problem that we’re very regularly facing. Usually, we handle the problem by… (more…)

I was recently involved in a python 2 to 3 upgrade project at work and had a decent experience using pyenv and virtualenv together during development to deal with multiple pythons in a relatively sane way. (more…)

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