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Python -O won’t magically make every script faster, but in the right workloads it’s a free win—here’s how to test it safely.

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The BBC’s iPlayer service isn’t the biggest or the most showy streamer out there, but it was one of the first… and it’s still one of the best. At a time when TV is global and sometimes a little ...

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Think of a REST API like a waiter in a restaurant. You (an app) tell the waiter what you want (your request), and the waiter goes to the kitchen (the server) to get it for you. REST is just a set of ...

The pandas team has released pandas 3.0.0, a major update that changes core behaviors around string handling, memory ...

Vladimir Zakharov explains how DataFrames serve as a vital tool for data-oriented programming in the Java ecosystem. By ...