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Postgres, Python, and More

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 08, 2023

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Is your Postgres ready for production?

=> ↺ Is your Postgres ready for production?

You've been building your application for months, you've tested with beta users, you've gotten feedback and iterated. You've gone through your launch checklist, email beta users, publish the blog post, post to hacker news and hope the comments are friendly. But is your database ready for whatever may come on launch day or even 2 months in? Here's a handy checklist to make sure you're not caught flat footed.

Free Python book updated to second edition #Books #Python

=> ↺ Free Python book updated to second edition #Books #Python

Think Python is an introduction to Python programming for beginners. It starts with basic concepts of programming; it is carefully designed to define all terms when they are first used and to develop each new concept in a logical progression. Larger pieces, like recursion and object-oriented programming, are divided into a sequence of smaller steps and introduced over the course of several chapters.

Think Python 2e

=> ↺ Think Python 2e

This is the second edition of Think Python, which uses Python 3. If you are using Python 2, you might want to use the first edition, which is here.

Divided Federal Circuit Makes Controversial Ruling That Nonliteral Elements of “Cloned” Software Are Not Protectable Because It Was Based on Open Source and Other Known Material

=> ↺ Divided Federal Circuit Makes Controversial Ruling That Nonliteral Elements of “Cloned” Software Are Not Protectable Because It Was Based on Open Source and Other Known Material

The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) affirmed a district court ruling that the asserted nonliteral elements of a software program were not copyright protectable, in part, because allegedly copied materials contained unprotectable open-source elements, factual and data elements and other known elements that were not original.

Let's (not) break up the monolith - Part 1

=> ↺ Let's (not) break up the monolith - Part 1

Well, let us look at these two responses and see if microservices will help them to solve the aforementioned issues. As this post would be very long as a single post, I decided to split it up in two posts. This post will discuss the first response. The next post (link will follow) will discuss the second response and sum it all up.

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