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A collection of 2 posts

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The maze of Python dependency management

For over 20 years, I’ve developed code for the JVM, first in Java, then in Kotlin. However, the JVM is not a silver bullet, e.g., in scripts: Virtual machines incur additional memory requirementsIn many cases, the script doesn’t run long enough to gain any benefit performance-wise. The bytecode is interpreted and never compiles to native code. For these reasons, I now write my scripts in Python. One of them collects social media metrics from different sources and stores them in BigQ
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Development infrastructure, a personal experience

This week, I was tasked to create a development infrastructure with the following components: Subversion for Source Code Management, Trac for bugtracking, Hudson for Continuous Integration, Sonar for Quality Reporting, and Nexus, a Maven repository. I added 2 more components: a database in order to store data from each application in the same datastore, and a LDAP in order to authentify oneself in each application with the same credentials.