Communications of the ACM

Safe Coding

Safe coding is a collection of software design practices and patterns that allow for cost-effectively achieving a high degree ...
InfoWorld

The best new features in MariaDB

The open source MySQL spin-off has steadily added features all its own. Here are five good reasons to switch to MariaDB.
GitHub

omnipkg – Universal Python Runtime Orchestrator

One environment. Infinite Pythons and packages. <1ms zero-copy IPC. omnipkg is not just another package manager. It's an intelligent, self-healing runtime orchestrator that breaks the fundamental laws ...
InfoWorld

Python’s popularity slip: Here’s what we know

Python faces new challenges from old rivals, but is it a blip or something more? In other news, we have goodies like easy-install instances of PostgreSQL, a peek at the state of the art in visual ...
GitHub

Native Python bindings for btrfs — create filesystems, manage subvolumes and snapshots, mount and unmount. No shell commands, no subprocess, no runtime dependencies beyond libc.

Why not the existing btrfs package? The btrfs package on PyPI requires libbtrfsutil installed as a system library. That means distro packages, broken virtualenvs, and ...