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++.
Which serializer is faster in Python, JSON or Pickle? A small benchmark measuring time and memory with the standard library, UltraJSON and Pickle protocols 4 and 5.
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.
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.
Load tests with ab against a minimal NodeJS server on Express and a Python one on asyncio and aiohttp. Requests per second, timings and concurrent clients, with the numbers as they came out.
First post of a series comparing asyncio, threads and processes in Python 3.4. This one measures how each of them does when downloading a batch of web pages.
