Probably like many people, I've been hearing for years now that January of 2020 was the end of life for Python 2, specifically January 1st. As a result, I was rather surprised to hear that there will be another release of Python 2 in April, although I cou... (more…)

An initiative to develop API standards for n-dimensional arrays and dataframes... (more…)

Imagine the following situation: there is a software developer that is either adding new code or refactoring existing one by extracting a class/function. They have to place code somewhere, but it does not seem to fit anywhere. So what does a developer do?... (more…)

A quick glance into how we made our marketing data-oriented and some reasoning behind the technical stack...

Welcome to the third post in our series on Python at scale at Instagram! As we mentioned in the first post in the series, Instagram Server… (more…)