Measuring the performance of Python chunks in different environments
A tiny context manager for timing specific chunks of Python code, and how to switch it on only in development and staging without touching the source.
Wonderful Python Libraries #2: secure secret storage in Python
Cloud secret managers and Hashicorp Vault are client-server. For local scripts you need something lighter: Python keyring stores your secrets in the operating system's own secure storage.
Wonderful Python libraries, no. 1: Prompt Toolkit
First post in a series about my favourite Python libraries. Prompt Toolkit gives you autocompletion, syntax highlighting, history and ncurses dialogs in the terminal without writing ncurses code.
Redis vs. KeyDB — My Performance Test and Conclusions
KeyDB is a fork of Redis. The KeyDB project claims that the Redis implementation approach is not correct and can be better, in terms of performance.
The butterfly effect on research
A talk at Navaja Negra 2023 taught me that WAF-Brain, a proof of concept we built at BBVA, had become the base of research papers written on the other side of the world.