November 2024

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☑ What’s New in Python 3.13 - Performance Improvements

In this series looking at features introduced by every version of Python 3, we take a look at some of the new features added in Python 3.13. In this article we look at the improvements to the intereter itself. We’ll look at the new option to disable the GIL, and the addition of a JIT compiler.

This is the 34th of the 34 articles that currently make up the “Python 3 Releases” series, the first of which was What’s New in Python 3.0.

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16 Nov 2024 at 10:41PM in Software
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October 2024

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☑ What’s New in Python 3.13 - Intepreter Updates

In this series looking at features introduced by every version of Python 3, we take a look at some of the new features added in Python 3.13. In this article we look at the improvements to the interactive interpreter and improved error reporting.

This is the 33rd of the 34 articles that currently make up the “Python 3 Releases” series, the first of which was What’s New in Python 3.0.

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29 Oct 2024 at 6:45PM in Software
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☑ BlazingMQ: Client/Broker Protocol

BlazingMQ is a message queue middleware system developed at Bloomberg which was opened sourced around a year ago. I think it has a lot of very useful features for some use-cases, so this series of articles looks at it in a bit more detail. In this fourth article I’m going to discuss the low-level details of the network protocol between clients and brokers.

This is the 4th of the 4 articles that currently make up the “BlazingMQ” series, the first of which was BlazingMQ: Introduction.

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20 Oct 2024 at 5:45PM in Software
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☑ BlazingMQ: Hands On

BlazingMQ is a message queue middleware system developed at Bloomberg which was opened sourced around a year ago. I think it has a lot of very useful features for some use-cases, so this series of articles looks at it in a bit more detail. In this third article I’m going to try to get a basic producer and consumer working with the broker to get some basic exposure to the APIs in C++ and Python.

This is the 3rd of the 4 articles that currently make up the “BlazingMQ” series, the first of which was BlazingMQ: Introduction.

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10 Oct 2024 at 1:15PM in Software
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July 2024

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☑ BlazingMQ: Clustering and Message Flow

BlazingMQ is a message queue middleware system developed at Bloomberg which was opened sourced around a year ago. I think it has a lot of very useful features for some use-cases, so this series of articles looks at it in a bit more detail. Having looked at an overview of the features in the previous article, I’m going to drill into clustering and a high-level look at the way messages flow through the system.

This is the 2nd of the 4 articles that currently make up the “BlazingMQ” series, the first of which was BlazingMQ: Introduction.

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3 Jul 2024 at 9:08AM in Software
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June 2024

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☑ BlazingMQ: Introduction

BlazingMQ is a message queue middleware system developed at Bloomberg which was opened sourced around a year ago. I think it has a lot of very useful features for some use-cases, so this series of articles looks at it in a bit more detail.

This is the 1st of the 4 articles that currently make up the “BlazingMQ” series.

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27 Jun 2024 at 9:17AM in Software
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March 2024

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☑ What’s New in Python 3.12 - Library Changes

In this series looking at features introduced by every version of Python 3, we take a look at the new features added in Python 3.12 in the standard library, as well as a few other minor language improvements I missed in previous articles.

This is the 32nd of the 34 articles that currently make up the “Python 3 Releases” series, the first of which was What’s New in Python 3.0.

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17 Mar 2024 at 2:58PM in Software
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February 2024

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☑ What’s New in Python 3.12 - F-Strings and Interpreter Changes

In this series looking at features introduced by every version of Python 3, we take a look at the new features added in Python 3.12 related to f-strings, inlining of comprehensions, improved error reporting, the new monitoring API for debuggers, and better isolation for sub-interpreters.

This is the 31st of the 34 articles that currently make up the “Python 3 Releases” series, the first of which was What’s New in Python 3.0.

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6 Feb 2024 at 5:05PM in Software
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