Python/FastAPI/Django Weekly News Summary

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#Real Python

PyTorch vs TensorFlow for Your Python Deep Learning Project

PyTorch vs Tensorflow: Which one should you use? Learn about these two popular deep learning libraries and how to choose the best one for your project.
#advanced #data-science #machine-learning
By – | May 08, 2024

#Django Project – Weblog

Django bugfix releases issued: 5.0.5 and 4.2.12

By Sarah Boyce | May 06, 2024

Django bugfix releases issued: 5.0.6 and 4.2.13

By Natalia Bidart | May 07, 2024

Django Developers Survey 2023 results

By Thibaud Colas and JetBrains | May 10, 2024

#Python Insider

Python 3.13.0 beta 1 released

By Thomas Wouters | May 09, 2024

#PyCoders

Issue #628 – Random Web App Ports, unittest, TypeIs vs TypeGuard, and More

By – | May 07, 2024

#testdriven.io

Securing FastAPI with JWT Token-based Authentication

Secure a FastAPI application with JSON Web Tokens.
#API #FastAPI
By Abdulazeez Abdulazeez Adeshina | May 08, 2024

#Photon Designer

Add inline AI suggestions to your Django app 🗯

Using fast LLM, HTMX, and Photon Designer to suggest actions to the user.
By Photon Designer | May 08, 2024

#Python Library

How to Read and Write Parquet Files with Python

Apache Parquet files are a popular columnar storage format used by data scientists and anyone using the Hadoop ecosystem. It was developed to be very efficient in terms of compression and encoding. Check out their documentation if you want to know all the details about how Parquet files work. You can read and write Parquet […]
#intermediate #Python
By Mike | May 06, 2024

Episode 40 – Open Source Development with Antonio Cuni

In this episode, we discuss working on several different open-source Python packages. Antonio Cuni is our guest, and he chats about his work on PyScript, pdb++, pypy, HPy, and SPy. Listen in as we chat about Python, packages, open source, and so much more! Show Links Here are some of the projects we talked about […]
#beginner #Python
By Mike | May 09, 2024

One Week Left for Python Logging Book / Course Kickstarter

My latest Python book campaign is ending in less than a week. This book is about Python’s logging module. I also include two chapters that discuss structlog and loguru. Support on Kickstarter Why Back A Kickstarter? The reason to back the Kickstarter is that I have exclusive perks there that you cannot get outside of […]
#Books #Python
By Mike | May 10, 2024

Ruff – The Fastest Python Linter and Formatter Just Got Faster!

I’m a little late in reporting on this topic, but Ruff put out an update in April 2024 that includes a hand-written recursive descent parser. This update is in version 0.4.0 and newer. Ruff’s new parser is >2x faster, translating to a 20-40% speedup for all linting and formatting invocations. Ruff’s announcement includes some statistics […]
#beginner #Python
By Mike | May 11, 2024

#Adam Johnson – Blogs

Django: Introducing django-harlequin, a launcher for Terminal-based SQL IDE Harlequin

Harlequin is a Terminal-based SQL IDE by Ted Conbeer. It is pretty popular, with over 2,500 GitHub Stars and counting. It looks like this:
By Adam Johnson | May 07, 2024

Python: Show all subclasses of a class

class.__subclasses__() returns a list of the direct subclasses of a given class:
By Adam Johnson | May 10, 2024

#Hashnode

Under the Hood: The Technologies
Powering Our AI Startup, Hyperly

My tech journey spans across 12 years. I've primarily been a backend developer, working with languages like Ruby (Padrino framework), Java (Spring Framework), Scala (Play Framework), and a few others. Along the way, I've built side projects like NoCo…
By Nagesh Bansal | May 11, 2024

The Modern AI Stack: Mastering Large Language Models with Prompt Engineering and Retrieval Techniques

Development in the world of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is moving at breakneck speed. The broader public’s interest in AI began to climb rapidly alongside the launch of ChatGPT, a Large Language Model launched by OpenAI in 30 November, 2022.
Large L…
By Jeremy Alva | May 07, 2024

FastAPI Backend Architecture: Model-Controller-Service

Building an app has its challenges, but making the app scale well as the code and traffic increases in volume is a different beast altogether. You not only have to consider the features to be implemented, but also how you can make your services perfo…
By Jeremy Alva | May 07, 2024