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Like many writers who publish on the Fediverse, Elena Rossini has reported request stampedes taking down her wordpress website when sharing links to her articles.

This blog post by James Bennett convinced me that Litestar is a great alternative to FastAPI for building asynchronous web servers in modern Python.

Profiling of CPU time and memory allocation is an invaluable way to get deep insights on how your code performs and allow you to optimize your services' cost, throughput and resilience to load spikes. perf and valgrind are great language-agnostic profiler…

Introduction htmx is a great library that brings better responsiveness to server-side-rendered websites.

Talk deck | Video link To improve the Internet's signal / noise ratio, the Let's Block It project allows you to hide low-quality content and useless nags with the uBlock Origin content blocker.

Talk deck | Video link As part of the team maintaining the Docker images for the Datadog Agent, I worked on automating digital signing and vulnerability scanning, to increase the safety of our distributed artifacts.

Talk deck | Support material While preparing the release of our new golang-based Agent6, I investigated the performance of dogstatsd, our way for customer applications to send metrics and agents.

Talk deck This three-part talk exposes some lessons learned from redesigning Datadog's Docker integration: Namespaces and cgroups: the building blocks of container isolation Moving from IP to Unix Sockets for submitting custom metrics via dogstatsd Using…

Talk deck | Support material An introduction to container technologies and what to monitor to ensure they run smoothly.