Threads; read-it
You might have heard from your senior developers the following Use threads for I/O stuff, it will be fasterSome seasoned dev that you love And yes they are absolutely right and you might have heard the following as well Nodejs is a single threaded, non blocking event driven, I/O optimised javascript runtimeSomeone from the internet Or something like this about Python GIL in python makes threads very inefficient Fact And you're like This article will dump everything that we know about threads...
Python-ing it better
Where I work; we are obsessed with python, we use it everyday and to us python is an art. Python does not force rules unto you. But there’s always a better way of doing it; to us, a pythonic way. This article will try to show off some cool tricks and good practices in python that you can use to level up in the art of python. Using built in functions Most of us start our coding...
Terra-forming Medialive Resources
We’ve all been there. Learning to use terraform, writing beautiful code to manage our cloud infrastructure; it’s all sunshine and rainbows. Until you realize you work with video and need to use Medialive resources. Now sure, you can create these resources from the aws console like a nomad and pass in the arn to make your CD pipeline do what it needs to do but unfortunately we are not nomads. We are engineers and hackers...
AWS Lambda! but on steroids
Do you ever feel like AWS LAMBDA is great but they are just not enough for what you need to do? Maybe you need more horsepower, perhaps a core or two and maybe the TASK you want to do might not be done within 15 minutes? I know what you’re thinking; duh! We have Ec2 for larger tasks and yes but do you not feel that it gets a little tricky maintaining Ec2 sometimes cause...
