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Go Fast: Getting Started with Sanic for Python

Go Fast: Getting Started with Sanic for Python Tired of waiting for sluggish HTTP requests to complete before your backend code can proceed with other things? Sanic is an asynchronous web framework in Python, that is built to be fast. In a world where Flask and Django are the most ...

Tutorial: Log to Console in PHP

“All code and no logging makes John a black box error-prone system.” Logging is a key aspect of monitoring, troubleshooting and debugging your code. Not only does it make your project’s underlying execution more transparent and intelligible, but also more accessible in it’s approach. In a company or a community ...

Programmatically Adding Laravel Middleware

When it comes to web development, middleware is often the key to ensuring everything connects up - even if some of the pieces don’t always matchup. HTTP Middleware is a mechanism used to conveniently filter HTTP requests coming into your web application. When it comes to PHP, frameworks often help ...

The 15 Best Podcasts for Engineers

The 15 Best Podcasts for Engineers If you’ve been on the hunt for a new developer podcast, then you understand just how difficult and fruitless that hunt can be. You can spend hours online sifting through coding podcasts, programming podcasts, and devops podcasts just to realize one simple thing: none ...

A Complete Guide to Rails Caching

If you are using Ruby on Rails, caching might be one of the best tools on your belt to build a better application. The idea behind caching in Rails is to serve thousands of concurrent users on a single server with a single database attached. Let’s take a look at some of the benefits caching can provide.

Migrating from Python 2 to 3: Automated Tools and Strategies

This article is a continuation of Part I (A comprehensive guide to migrating from Python 2(Legacy Python) to Python 3) which details the changes, improvements in Python 3 and why they are important. This rest of the article details automated tools, strategies and role of testing in the migration from ...

Python Language vs. Ruby Language

In this blog post, we'll be going through two server-side scripting languages; Python and Ruby with focus on comparing the performance and other factors that might help you in deciding which language to pick over the other for your web application.

Scout Now Partnering With API Management Leader DreamFactory

Scout Now Partnering With API Management Leader DreamFactory At Scout, we pride ourselves in building a tool that is focused on the developers’ ability to quickly identify performance issues within their applications so they can fix them and resume building the fun stuff. DreamFactory is a robust role-based access tool ...

Memory Management in Python

Memory management in python: Yes, you heard it right “memory management in python”. You must be thinking: why do I need to manage the memory in any high-level language like python?