Each day, over 95 million photos and videos are shared on Instagram. The unstoppable photo-centric social media platform has over 600 million registered users — 400 million of whom are active every day. Talk about operating at scale: Instagram kills it at... (more…)

A recurring conversation with my collegues has been around whether to extract string literals to the top of a Python module as global constants. I often see people writing Python modules that include (more…)

Blue green deployment approach is based on creating a replica(call it green fleet) of the current production infrastructure(call it blue fleet) and route all the traffic from blue fleet to green… (more…)

Recently, I came across a resource that allowed me to download the entire collection of UTZOO NetNews Archive of the earliest USENET posts. These were essentially the earliest available discussions posted to the Internet by people working at various Unive... (more…)

Python as DSL for writing PlantUML sequence diagrams - pinetr2e/napkin... (more…)