Tell other systems what to do — the easy way — Remote procedure calls (RPCs) have been around forever and are one of the best ways to execute functions across distributed systems. There are many ways to get another system to run some code, like using a web API or some socket-based protocol, but most of them require a higher upfront…

There’s more than just the vanilla JSON library — Parsing JSON is a necessary evil of software development. If you’re interacting with an API, sending messages between hosts or scraping data then it’s probably in JSON. …

Must go faster, must go faster — With the advent of elegant, full-service IDEs there are now fewer and fewer command-line interactions by developers. When you can install a package or manage files from a pretty UI why would you need an arsenal of outdated shell tricks? …

A faster, more efficient way to interact with sockets — If you’re writing code that reads to or writes from a network socket, you want those operations to be as fast and efficient as possible. Maybe you want to keep an eye on multiple sockets without compromising speed and blocking each call. …

Building and maintaining robust API services has become vastly easier in recent years. As it became simpler to deploy APIs, it also came to be expected that most products offer one. Keeping many different APIs up-to-date and functioning like a well oiled machine is no easy feat. …

Audio routing bliss without all the overhead — The old clunky days of dealing with broken audio drivers and devices in Linux are behind us. Nowadays, there are entire distributions dedicated to sound design and music production. You can grab most popular off-the-shelf distros and expect many audio interfaces to work just fine out of the gate. But…

Everybody has used top before. Its a tried and true method to quickly investigate misbehaving Linux hosts. You type three letters, hit enter and you’re presented with a fast, simple list of what is currently hogging basic system resources. But what happens when top isn’t enough? What about transient CPU…

GitHub is a wonderful place to keep your code. It is also a great place to keep a wide variety of other things, too. You can store datasets, books, photos and just about anything you want in GitHub. Even the entire Constitution of India is on GitHub. One of the…

This week we’re back with another list of super cool Python libraries that make development a little simpler, more efficient, and even exciting. In this installment, we’ll examine some third-party modules that are so useful you may wonder why they don’t ship with Python by default. Whether it’s abstracting system…