Links
Things worth reading. Or not. At least, I thought I'd rather keep them when I encountered them.1316 links so far, newest first.
nylas.com
Why Nylas ships its Python services as versioned Debian packages built with dh-virtualenv rather than git-plus-pip, Docker or PEX.
blog.openshift.com
First part of a series on Envoy sidecar patterns, demonstrating circuit breaking through max_connections and max_pending_requests limits plus outlier detection.
hynek.me
A ten-phase process for conference talks, from finding an idea and writing the proposal through slide design, rehearsal and delivery on stage.
stellar.org
Site of Stellar, the open-source blockchain network built for cross-border payments, asset tokenisation and decentralised finance.
ucdc.therectangles.com
A nine-field canvas, in the lineage of the Business Model Canvas, mapping user problems, motives and fears against business goals to reach a value proposition.
ripple.com
Ripple's site, presenting its blockchain-based cross-border payment, custody and stablecoin infrastructure aimed at banks and fintechs.
weusecoins.com
Beginner's introduction to Bitcoin — what it is, how to buy and store it — with explainer videos, FAQs and news.
istio.io
Home of Istio, the open-source service mesh adding traffic management, security and observability to Kubernetes and virtual-machine workloads.
medium.com
Why Netflix keeps hundreds of separate repositories and adds publisher feedback, automated version bumps and cross-repo refactoring rather than moving to a monorepo.
medium.com
Walkthrough of deploying a Kubernetes cluster on VMware vSphere with Juju, then handing NVIDIA GPUs through to the workloads running on it.
docs.python.org
Standard library module for introspecting live Python objects — type checks, source retrieval, call signatures and stack frames.
backtrader.com
A feature-rich Python framework for backtesting and live trading, shipping its own indicators, analyzers and data feeds.
pmorissette.github.io
A flexible Python framework for testing quantitative trading strategies, assembled from composable algorithm blocks.
quantinsti.com
A survey of Python libraries used in algorithmic trading, from data retrieval and technical analysis to visualisation, backtesting and machine learning.
pypi.python.org
Python module that monitors a process's memory usage and reports memory consumption line by line.
nikgrozev.com
Illustrated walkthrough of the pandas reshaping operations — pivot, pivot_table, stack and unstack — and what each one does to a dataframe.
multithreaded.stitchfix.com
Argues that data scientists should own their own ETL and production code end to end, with platform engineers building the abstractions that make that autonomy possible.
carto.com
CARTO's site, a cloud platform for spatial analysis, mapping and location-intelligence apps running directly on a data warehouse.
