The process pool is the way to make your Python program run faster even if it is CPU bound. Find out how to use the pool in this extract from Programmer's Python: Async .

In contemporary software designs, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) serve as vital components, facilitating communication between different software programs, particularly in microservices systems. Ensuring API security is therfore paramount.

Having entered the Top 20 of the TIOBE Index in September 2023, Kotlin has continued its upward trend. Is it going to break into the Top 10 any time soon? Could it emulate Python and rise to the top?

Microsoft announced a range of new features for its tools at its annual Ignite conference, with new ways to customize Microsoft 365 and extra AI facilities for Azure.

A free, self-paced online course about Generative AI is on offer from Microsoft's Azure Cloud Advocates. It's a 12-lesson curriculum targeted at complete novices to LLMs.

The latest version of PhpStorm, the IDE for PHP and web development from JetBrains, has been updated to support the new features of PHP 8.3, due to be released later this week.

Shortly after version 16 of PostgreSQL was released,
CosmosDB follows suit adopting the new version applicable to production workloads.

Apache Kyuubi 1.8 has been released with improvements including a new experimental Web UI and a new chat engine with OpenAI ChatGPT backend.

As Black Friday looms, the well-organized among us are hitting the shops to be ready with our festive gifts, though I doubt many of us are as ready as the friend who told me they've already finished wrapping their prezzies!

The season of discount deals has arrived early. edX is offering a 20% off selected courses and program bundles for Cyber Monday. Udacity has an even better Black Friday Deal with 50% off subscriptions.

Google has resumed the planned deprecation of Manifest V2, giving notice to Chrome extension developers that Manifest V2 extensions will be phased out as early as June 2024 in the prestable versions - Dev, Canary and Beta - of Chrome 127 and later.

Helidon, the open source microservices framework by Oracle, has been updated to version 4, just a month after the release of Java 21. With this release Helidon becomes the world’s first virtual threads-based microservices framework.

Microsoft has launched the Secure Future Initiative, a focus on improving security that includes software development, new identity protections, and faster responses to vulnerabilities.

Author: Irv Kalb
Publisher: No Starch Press
Date: January 2022
Pages: 416
ISBN: 978-1718502062
Print: 1718502060
Kindle: ‎ B0957SHYQL
Audience: Python developers
Rating: 3
Reviewer: Mike James
Python, Object-Oriented? Not a lot of programmers know that!

Written by machine-learning researchers and members of the Android Security team, this guide subtitled "Detection and Analysis by Human and Machine" tackles discovering and understanding the malware that targets the Android operating system. Qian Han et al provide a comprehensive introduction to detecting common threats facing the Android ecosystem today.

This book looks at how to work with graphics processing units (GPUs). Tom Deakin and Timothy Mattson show how to use OpenMP to program a GPU using just a few directives and runtime functions. The authors share best practices for writing performance portable programs, and look at how to go further to maximize performance by using CPUs and GPUs in parallel.

In this book, with the subtitle "An Entrepreneur's Journey from Idea to Exit",  serial entrepreneur Martin Warner takes a fledgling company all the way from zero to hero, selling it for $50 million after a mere 17 months.