How to Build a CI/CD Pipeline for Python20191219095452
How to Build a CI/CD Pipeline for Python
December 19, 2019basics of python, ci cd pipeline, CI/CD, continuous integration, Travis CI
DevOps professionals have a bag of tricks to make CI/CD work. But those tricks create a schism between dev and test environments, causing the “works o...
How To Build a Recommendation Engine in Python20191212131324
How To Build a Recommendation Engine in Python
December 12, 2019ecommerce, python, python tutorial, recommendation engine
This tutorial will teach you how to build a simple recommendation engine using Python by analyzing data from previous purchases to help identify items...
How to Convert .py to .exe20191205141431
How to Convert .py to .exe
December 5, 2019.py to .exe, cx_freeze, PyInstaller, python, python executable
How can you distribute your Python code to users who expect to simply click on an executable file? This blog compares two of the most popular options:...
How to Best Manage Threads in Python20191128140731
How to Best Manage Threads in Python
November 28, 2019multiprocessing, multithreading, python threads, queues
Multithreading, multiprocessing and queues can be a great way to speed up Python performance. This blog post can help you understand the differences, ...
Built-in Packages in Python & Other Python Elements20191121095902
Built-in Packages in Python & Other Python Elements
November 21, 2019python, python built-in packages, Python functions, software development
This post explores Python's built-in packages and functions that simplify adoption, increase developer productivity and promote code consistency....
Developing in Containers vs your “Day-to-Day” Machine20191114103431
Developing in Containers vs your “Day-to-Day” Machine
November 14, 2019containers, Dev environment, docker, Reproducibility, software development
Containerized dev environments are isolated from the underlying system. By comparison, ActiveState language runtimes exist as standalone development e...
How to Best Manage Python Dependencies20191107111246
How to Best Manage Python Dependencies
November 7, 2019basics of python, pipenv, pipfile.lock, Python dependencies, python programming, venv, virtualenv
One of the biggest headaches that arise when working with multiple projects in Python is managing the dependencies that differ between them. This blog...
Neural Network Showdown: TensorFlow vs PyTorch20191104113608
Neural Network Showdown: TensorFlow vs PyTorch
November 4, 2019Neural network, python programming, PyTorch, tensorflow
TensorFlow and PyTorch have accelerated the use of neural networks in commercial and research applications. This post compares them, and lets you make...
Introduction to Python Data Types20191024135332
Introduction to Python Data Types
October 24, 2019Python classes, Python data types, Python functions, Python methods, Python operations, python programming, Python strings
This tutorial reviews the basics of how and when to use each Python data type, and will also point out some of the differences between Python 2 usage ...
Natural Language Processing: NLTK vs spaCy20191017175548
Natural Language Processing: NLTK vs spaCy
October 17, 2019Entity extraction, Natural Language Processing, NLP, nltk, POS tagging, python programming, tokenization
There's a real philosophical difference between NLTK and spaCy. NLTK was built by scholars as a tool to help you create complex NLP functions. In cont...