Bringing OpenTelemetry to Saleor for end-to-end ecommerce observability: distributed traces and metrics - with no vendor lock-in.

In the IT industry, certifications often generate debate – some regard them as essential career milestones, while others question their practical value. While OpenTelemetry is getting widely adopted,…

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HTTP supports response compression, which can significantly reduce the size of responses, thereby decreasing bandwidth usage and load times for users. It’s a cheap and valuable technique for improving...

Despite the rise of OpenTelemetry and eBPF, most developers don’t know what automatic instrumentation actually does under the hood. This post breaks it down—not to suggest you build your own, but to…

Learn how to efficiently run Python apps in production using Docker, NGINX, and a stack‑native approach. Cut costs and stay in control, with no cloud lock-in.

This follow-up survey helps the OTel Collector SIG track how usage patterns and needs have evolved since our previous survey. Your responses will help us see what's working, what's changed, and where…

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What's Changed Add Python 3.14 support. Add CPython free-threaded support (3.14t+ only) - huge thanks to the folks at Quansight Labs for all the work to get this one sorted! Drop Python <= 3.8 sup...

:anchor: Patch the inner source of python functions at runtime. - adamchainz/patchy

I wrote about the details of this case when it was found that Anthropic's training on book content was fair use, but they needed to have purchased individual copies of …

This PEP proposes extending the core metadata specification for Python packaging to include two new, repeatable fields named Import-Name and Import-Namespace to record the import names that a project ...

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What if some rejected PEPs were actually accepted? How would Python look today? Let's go through 10 PEPs from the past and imagine an alternative future for the language!## Timestamps(00:00:00) INTRO(00:01:00) PART 1: What if rejected PEPs were accepted?(00:02:15) PEP 638: Syntactic Macros(00:13:53) PEP 505: None-aware operators(00:37:12) PEP 671: Late-bound function argument defaults(00:44:40) PEP 335: Overloadable Boolean Operators(00:50:53) PEP 3136: Labeled break and continue(00:52:49) PEP 463: Exception-catching expressions(01:00:58) PEP 511: API for code transformers(01:06:30) PEP 340: Anonymous block statements(01:10:30) PEP 276 and PEP 284: Alternative integer iteration(01:17:12) The do: while: loop(01:19:50) The final boss of Python syntax feature requests(01:25:33) PART 2: PR OF THE WEEK(01:36:17) Raw f-string format fixes(01:38:44) PART 3: WHAT'S GOING ON IN CPYTHON(01:40:55) Python 3.14 RC2 and Python 3.13.7(01:43:20) Welcome to the core team, Emma(01:43:50) Welcome to the release team, Savannah(01:45:56) Free threading changes(01:47:49) Perf improvements(01:52:00) New features(01:57:20) Bugfixes(01:59:15) OUTRO

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