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Staff Engineer vs Engineering Manager When do you need a Staff Engineers? What’s the difference between Staff Engineer and Engineering Manager? This article covers these questions and more. ALEX EWERLÖF

Django Performance: Scaling and Optimization Performance tuning in the context of Django applications is the practice of enhancing both the efficiency and effectiveness of your web project to optimize its runtime behavior. This article tells you a lot of what you need to know. LOADFORGE.COM

Python’s pathlib Module Python’s pathlib module is the tool to use for working with file paths. This post contains pathlib quick reference tables and examples. TREY HUNNER

Advent of Code 2024 This annual tradition is a series of small programming puzzles that can be completed in any programming language. ADVENTOFCODE.COM

CI/CD for Python With GitHub Actions With most software following agile methodologies, it’s essential to have robust DevOps systems in place to manage, maintain, and automate common tasks with a continually changing codebase. By using GitHub Actions, you can automate your workflows efficiently, especially for Python projects. REAL PYTHON

Constraints Are Good: Python’s Metadata Dilemma Python’s initial flexibility in packaging with the executable setup.py has meant that people have come to expect this power. In this post Armin argues that if constraints had been there in the first place we’d be in a better place now. ARMIN RONACHER

Introduction to Retrogame Programming With Pyxel Pyxel is a Rust based framework for building retro games that comes with a Python API wrapper. This step-by-step tutorial shows you how to do some basic sprite animation to get started. MATHIEU LECARME

Top 10 Rules of Continuous Integration Continuous Integration (CI) is key to rapid deployment of new features. This post gives you ten rules to consider when doing CI. KRISTINA NIKOLOVA