Asyncio is just one way to do async in Python, but it is an important one. Getting started with asyncio is difficult because of the profusion of coroutines, tasks and futures, how they differ and how to use them. 

GitOps, a novel term introduced over the last 5 years, refers to a process of automating IT infrastructure using infrastructure as code and software development best practices such as  version control, collaboration, compliance, and CI/CD. Learn about the basics of GitOps together with five best practices that can help you secure your GitOps environment. 

TypeScript, Microsoft's alternative to JavaScript created by Anders Hejlsberg first became public in October 2012. At the time Microsoft and JavaScript seemed an unlikely pairing - but TypeScript was a radical flavor of JavaScript that over time has proved popular. 

JetBrains has announced a public preview of Fleet, its new IDE and lightweight code editor. JetBrains announced Fleet last November and attracted massive interest with over 137,000 people signing up for the private preview. 

Carnegie Mellon is one of the top universities for computer science and offers a wide selection of database courses. Its 15-445/645 Intro To Database Systems is a project-oriented course that provides an introduction to the internal architecture of database systems. 

Today sees the final ever Ada Lovelace Day, an event which aims to raise the profile of women in science, technology, engineering and maths. The flagship event, combining science and comedy from an all-female line up takes place online starting at 8:00pm London time (19:00 UTC). 

Helidon, the open source microservices framework by Oracle, has been updated to version 3. At the same time a new side project, Helidon Nima, introduces virtual thread support. 

The Rust Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting and sustaining the Rust programming language, has announced it is establishing a team to maintain and define the Rust style. The Foundation has also recently released version1.64 of Rust with improvements including an enhanced version of await. 

To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the BBC, TNMOC (The National Museum of Computing) is mounting an exhibition "BBC Through The Decades", showcasing the analogue and digital technology used by the BBC since its inception. 

Microsoft has released version 1.3 of the Community Toolkit for .NET MAUI. The announcement follows the official release of the .NET MAUI Framework in the release version of Visual Studio 2022 in August. 

Multiplying two matrices together is fundamental and almost elementary. How fast you can do the job is both practically and theoretically important. The fastest known algorithm has just been beaten - not by a mathematician but by DeepMind's AlphaTensor. 

The Art of Computer Programming is, rightly, the most celebrated book, or rather set of books, in computer science and the publication of a new volume is a cause for celebration.

Apache Kafka has been updated with a new way to run Apache Kafka with self-managed metadata. Kafka is a distributed streaming platform that can be used for building real-time streaming data pipelines between systems or applications. 

Author: Dr. Robert I. Kabacoff
Publisher: Manning
Date: May 2022
Pages: 656
ISBN: 978-1617296055
Print: 1617296058
Kindle: B09X633939
Audience: Statistical practitioners
Rating: 4.8
Reviewer: Janet Swift

With high salaries to be earned as a data scientist,  R seems to be a useful language to learn R. Is R in Action the way to do it? 

This book, subtitled "Threads, processes, syncio & more" is part of a set of Something Completely Different books that look at what makes Python special and sets it apart from other programming languages. This volume is about asynchronous programming, something that is is hard to get right - but well worth the trouble. Mike James looks at how to ensure applications can make use of async code so avoiding wasting a huge amount of the machine’s potential. 

Subtitled "Kickstart your career as a software developer with C#", this book provides a fast-paced, supportive learning experience that will quickly get you writing C# code and building applications. Rather than focus on dry, technical explanations of the underlying theory, Jason Hales, Almantas Karpavicius and Mateus Viegas cut through the noise and use engaging examples to help you understand how each concept is applied in the real world. 

This book explores the concepts and tools necessary to bring a robot to life through programming. Francisco Martín Rico looks at the skills necessary to undertake projects with ROS2, the new version of ROS and describes the concepts, tools, and methodologies of ROS2 from the beginning.