As you code, you might have a coworker, or friend, or a little voice in your head, reminding you of Knuth’s famous saying: “premature optimization is the root of all evil.” But what makes an optimization premature, anyway? The short answer is that this aphorism is a tautology. “Premature” means “too early,” so we can rephrase the point as “doing things at the wrong time isn’t ideal.” Can’t argue with that! The problem with this saying is that many people […]

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GitHub – anil-yelken/SOAR: SOAR SOAR stands for “Security Orchestration, Automation and Incident Response”. The SOAR solution is technology that uses… github.com

Our data platform has been running for years. We hired a bunch of data scientist and engineers, too many unused tables which are running constant pipelines. The value we get from it is not enough to justify the investment we’ve made.

A quick look at recently released python 3.11 features

At some point in your Python journey, you may need to find the first item that matches a certain criterion in a Python iterable, such as a list or dictionary. The simplest case is that you need to confirm that a particular item exists in the iterable. For example, you want to find a name in a list of names or a substring inside a string. In these cases, you’re best off using the in operator. However, there are many […]