Category: Python

Announcing Motor 1.2 Release Candidate, With MongoDB 3.6 Support Adds change streams, causal consistency, retryable writes, and more. Drops Python 2.6, MongoDB 2.4, and Tornado 3.
Video From PloneConf 2017: Why Generosity Turns to Rage My keynote about how to master our emotions and be nice to beginners.
Retrospective: Coaching for First-Time PyGotham Speakers With your help, I hired opera singer Melissa Collom to coach 11 people. Here's what they said.
My conversation with Mark Weiss on the new "Using Reflection" podcast The lack of mentorship in the software industry, my freelancer days vs. my long-term commitment to MongoDB, and the influence of Zen on my career.
Help Me Offer Professional Coaching to PyGotham Speakers There are many first-time speakers this year, let's give them the skills and confidence to give great talks.
Vote For Your Favorite PyGotham Talks Help us find the best talks among our proposals, and shape this October's conference.
PyGotham's Call For Proposals Ends Tuesday at Noon Eastern Speak at PyGotham in NYC this October. It's an eclectic tech conference about Python, open source, policy, and culture.
Join Me and PyLadies NYC For a PyGotham Proposal Workshop Tuesday evening at MongoDB HQ, the PyLadies and the PyGotham staff will help you write a talk proposal.
New Driver Features for MongoDB 3.6 A faster and smaller wire protocol, simple resilient code, and realtime change streams.
Video of My PyCon 2017 Talk, "Grok the GIL: Fast and Thread-Safe Python" Read ancient CPython source code, and learn a principle so pithy you can write it on the back of your hand.