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This year saw the premier of the first ever PyCon Portugal! With DjangoCon Europe being hosted in Porto this year, the organizers took the opportunity to piggyback off of this conference and set up a PyCon in this beautiful country. I was lucky enough to be selected as one of the speakers, and it wa…

Read an interview with Adam Symington, author of the PythonMaps project, concerning geospatial data visualization and the Python tools used in it.

Repeatedly running queries that span multiple tables can be burdensome on your database. In this blog post, we’re going to talk about materialized views, how and why they help us cut down on query costs, and how to integrate them into your Django application. Read on to learn more or check out this …

dotMemory is a .NET memory profiler by JetBrains. My name is Ilya and I help develop the tool. I'd like to tell you a classical dogfooding story of how we optimized one of dotMemory's algorithms by using our own tools – dotMemory and dotTrace. We then improved it some more using dotTrace, and fin…

This is the sixth installment of our ongoing series on Big Data, how we see it, and how we build products for it. In this episode, we’ll cover the PACELC theorem. It is an extension of the CAP theorem, which describes trade-offs in distributed systems that exist before partition happens. Big Data…

In this part, we’ll talk about the roles of people working with Big Data. All these roles are data-centric, but they’re very different. Let’s describe them in broad brushstrokes to understand better who are those people we target.