How on earth does OpenAI (or Anthropic) answer 800 million people at once

Datacenter GPUs, NVLink fabrics, liquid cooling and serving software. This is how an LLM answers you in 2 seconds while 3 million other people are using it.

Honest Python: 15 Laws Against Mediocre Code

You cleared the beginner threshold. Your code runs. Congratulations, you just reached the level of functional mediocrity. These 15 laws will teach you to write honest code, the kind you won't have to apologise for.

The 7 things you should NOT use threads for in Python (that every programmer should know)

If you have been writing Python for more than 6 months and you still use threads to make your code faster, this article is going to hurt. Threads in Python do not work like they do in Java or C++.

Python Docker images in less than 50MB

A multi-stage Dockerfile that builds your Python project as wheels with the optimization flags and installs them without touching PyPI, so the final image stays small.

lxml in multi-stage Docker images

How to build a small multi-stage Docker image with lxml on Alpine: compile the wheel in one stage and copy only the .so files it needs into the final one.