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May 10, 2021

How Kubernetes works

If you want to understand containers, microservices architecture, modern application development, and cloud native computing, you need to understand Kubernetes. Read more ▶

Image: How companies are moving on from Cobol

How companies are moving on from Cobol

The legacy programming language that refuses to die is still powering millions of daily transactions, but the difficulties of maintaining and integrating Cobol mainframes make the case for modernization more compelling every day.

What to look for (and look out for) in container registries

Pulling from container registries is key to ensuring the health and resilience of the CI/CD pipeline. Choose your registry with care.

Using the decorator pattern in Python to clean up code

In Part 6 of this ongoing series, we use Python's decorator pattern to make our code a little less boilerplate-y and centralized, by consolidating common behaviors across our site into single functions.

Image: Visual Studio Code 1.56 improves hover feedback, debugging

Visual Studio Code 1.56 improves hover feedback, debugging

April 2021 release of Microsoft’s open source code editor also improves Docker support for remote development scenarios.

Kotlin 1.5.0 arrives with JVM records, sealed interfaces

Kotlin upgrade also stabilizes the JVM IR compiler and APIs for unsigned integer types and their functions.

Pyston project open sources its faster Python

Pyston 2.2 yields a roughly 30% speed improvement over standard CPython, and the software is now available under an open source license.

Instagram open sources high-performance Python fork

By making the Cinder project publicly available, the company wants to open conversation about upstreaming its performance optimizations to standard Python.

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