The latest trends in software development from the Computer Weekly Application Developer Network. This is a guest post written for the Computer Weekly Developer Network by Roman Khavronenko in his ...

Python -O won’t magically make every script faster, but in the right workloads it’s a free win—here’s how to test it safely.

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