Python Packaging in 2026: uv, Poetry, and the Modern Ecosystem
I mass-deleted requirements.txt files from a monorepo last month. Fourteen of them. Some had unpinned dependencies, some had pins from 2021, one had a …
Software
23 articles about software development, tools, and best practices
Platform Engineering: Building an Internal Developer Platform
Platform engineering is DevOps done right. Or maybe it’s DevOps with a product mindset. Either way, it’s the recognition that telling …
Read Article →Python Type Hints and Static Analysis in Production Codebases
If you’re writing Python without type hints in 2026, you’re making life harder for everyone — including future you. I held out for a …
Read Article →Python Async Programming: asyncio, Tasks, and Real-World Patterns
I avoided asyncio for years. Callbacks, event loops, futures — it all felt like unnecessary complexity when threads worked fine. Then we had an API …
Read Article →Programming Languages Compared: Python, Rust, Go, Java & More (2023 Series)
1. Introduction
Welcome to our Programming Languages Series! In this series, we’ll explore various programming languages, understand their …
Read Article →Product Update: ADD becomes Serengeti
As a product update; The “Autonomous Distributed Database”, otherwise known as simply ADD has been renamed to Serengeti.
The Serengeti is …
Read Article →Timing Issues in Real-time systems
What are Real-time Systems?
If you look up the term “real-time” in a dictionary, it will tell you that it is the actual time during which …
Read Article →Communications and The Software Development Process
Software Engineering or the Software Development Process is broken down into the following phases.
- Requirements
- Design
- Implementation
- Verification …
Structured and Object-Oriented Programming
Software development has really come a long way over the past few decades.
Programming used to always be about doing things in a very procedural way, …
Read Article →Converting from Legacy to Client-Server or Distributed Systems
What is a legacy system?
A legacy system is a computing system that has been around for a very long period of time, tends to be difficult to maintain, …
Read Article →Conceptual Architectural Views, with a focus on the Development View
What is Conceptual Architectural Views?
Architectural views are abstractions, or simplifications, of the entire design, in which important …
Read Article →Assessing Reusable Parts in a Software Architecture
During the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) the development team will come to realise that parts of any application have already been created …
Read Article →An Introduction to 2-Tier and 3-Tier Client-Server Systems
All software systems can be grouped in either a 2-tier or a 3-tier formation.
The former is essentially where all clients contain application and …
Read Article →The Pros and Cons of Agile in Software Development
What is Agile in Software Engineering?
Agile approaches help teams respond to unpredictability through incremental, iterative work cadences and …
Read Article →Mitigating Risks with Software Development Outsourcing
In the Oxford Dictionary, the term “outsourcing” is simply defined as obtaining goods or services by contract from an outside supplier …
Read Article →Software development processes
Introduction to Software Development Processes
Gabry defines the Software Development Methodology to be a set of related activities that lead to the …
Read Article →Approaches to software reuse
Introduction to Software Reuse
Software reuse is the process of creating software from antecedent and extant components.
There are a range of …
Read Article →Agile as a Software Development Process
Waterfall and Agile are by far the most commonly used software development processes, however, within them, there are many different styles of …
Read Article →An Introduction to Client-Server Systems
A client-server architecture/system is one where the server maintains all models of the backend datasets and business logic around taking and …
Read Article →Auditing Organisational Information Systems – Security
Auditing an organisation?s information systems is a vital part of operating a business at any decent scale. Particularly from a security standpoint …
Read Article →Copyright Compensation in the Internet Age
The original conception of copyright in 1710 (Craig Joyce, n.d.) was that it usually covers only the expression of a particular idea and not the idea …
Read Article →The Therac-25 Case Study – What Actually Happened?
The Therac-25 was a computerised medical technology radiation therapy machine produced by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) in 1982.
Between 1985 …
Read Article →Virgin Media blocks torrent sites!
Virgin Media have done it again! They have gone and started a “downloaders war”, I’m sure of it.
Basically what happened is that …
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