Jane Street is known for being an OCaml shop, but for years now Python has been our second major programming language, acting as the primary tool for data analysis and (especially importantly these days) machine learning. Most of our traders and researchers think and write in Python, even as the maj...

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A good write-up on the ghost domain problem in DNS: domains removed from a registry can still appear healthy to uptime checkers because recursive resolvers keep stale delegations warm. The Oh Dear team explains the edge case and how they're tightening their resolver setup to reduce that blind spot. ...

As a software developer at Atomic Object, one of the expectations (and perks) of the job is taking advantage of professional development opportunities outside of work. Recently, I attended Code Remix, a developer-centric conference in Miami as my annual professional development experience. Through t...

Using .loc to retrieve from a Python Pandas series is more convenient. But .iloc is faster: %timeit s.loc[‘a’] # 2.09 μs%timeit s.iloc[0] # 1.5 μs %timeit s.loc[[‘a’, ‘b’]] # 105 […] The post .loc vs .iloc in Pandas: Convenience versus speed appeared first on LernerPython.

A monthly analysis of eBay sales found that sports card singles generated $247 million in sales during May, up from $227 million in April.

Agents made writing code almost free. Understanding it costs what it always did, which is why review is now the bottleneck. The 2026 data is strikingly consistent on this, and yet most advice about AI code review is wrong for most people, because a solo developer with no users and a team maintaining...

One of my favorite things to come out of the generative AI wave is the speed in which I can knock out dumb little ideas I have. Before, when I would feel constrained by time, I'd reach for some off the shelf solution, often software as a service (SaaS) and would wire that up. Because it's so easy to...

Recently I came upon Pluggy, a Python library for developing plugin systems. It was originally developed as part of the pytest project - known for its rich plugin ecosystem - and later extracted into a standalone library. You're supposed to reach out for Pluggy if you want to add a plugin system to ...

At Databricks, we use and build agents extensively, from coding with them at scale...

A practical take on multi-agent setups in Laravel: another agent only earns its place when it needs its own model, tools, or instructions. Good piece on delegation tradeoffs, context handoff, and how to test routing before it becomes an expensive latency tax. Read more

For the past four months, I have been volunteering with the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) initiative as a facilitator running creative writing workshops inside Ann Arbor prisons. Coincidentally, here at Atomic Object, I am currently working on a team creating digital systems for the Michigan C...

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Retrieve from a Python Pandas series by position, rather than the index, with iloc: The post Pandas iloc vs loc: Selecting series values by position appeared first on LernerPython.

With AI becoming increasingly popular in everything, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) becoming a requirement in everyone's organization, how you're providing context to the AI tools becomes im... The post Extract Text from Your PDF and Image Files with Apache Tika appeared first on The Polyg...

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There is a bit of schadenfreude on Twitter right now about Anthropic being hit by the US government’s export control directive to suspend access to Fable and Mythos. Anthropic and their leadership have spent a lot of time and effort describing its own technology as dangerous and in need of strict co...

Better orchestration, fewer handoffs, faster progress, without a single new knob. The post How we made GitHub Copilot CLI more selective about delegation appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

AgentPerf from Artificial Analysis, the industry’s first agentic AI benchmark, gives developers, enterprises and infrastructure providers a clear way to compare systems for agentic AI. In the first round of published results, the NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra NVL72 platform delivers leading performance acr...

How agentic commerce, omnichannel, and live shopping conversion are shaping the future of eCommerce - what we heard at NRF APAC 2026.

How agentic commerce, omnichannel, and live shopping conversion are shaping the future of eCommerce - what we heard at NRF APAC 2026.

Discover when to use Apache Kafka and when to avoid it. Learn the core differences between event streaming and task queues to scale your systems reliably.

Confluent is a data streaming platform built on Apache Kafka that adds the enterprise tooling, managed infrastructure, and ecosystem integrations that Kafka alone doesn't include.

Confluent is a data streaming platform built on Apache Kafka that adds the enterprise tooling, managed infrastructure, and ecosystem integrations that Kafka alone doesn't include.

The methodology described in Evolutionary Database Design and operationalized in Refactoring Databases: ...