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code-for-a-living March 9, 2021

Level Up: Mastering statistics with Python – part 5

Rather than dig into complex math or over-simplify by using a pre-written function, we'll write our own binomial test function, primarily using base Python. In the process, we'll learn more about how hypothesis testing works and build intuition for how to interpret a p-value.

Ben Popper and Sophie Sommer

code-for-a-living March 8, 2021

Infrastructure as code: Create and configure infrastructure elements in seconds

IaC allows developers to supply IT environments with multiple lines of code and can be deployed in a matter of minutes (in contrast to manual infrastructure, which can take hours if not days to be deployed).

Theodoros ‘Theo’ Karasavvas

code-for-a-living March 3, 2021

Best practices can slow your application down

In order to get the most performant site possible when building the codebase for our public Stack Overflow site, we didn’t always follow best practices.

Roberta Arcoverde and Ryan Donovan

code-for-a-living March 2, 2021

Level Up: Mastering statistics with Python – part 4

While many introductory statistics classes teach the CLT, very few actually attempt to prove it because that requires some complex math. In this session, we'll bypass all that math by using Python loops to simulate the CLT.

Ben Popper and Sophie Sommer

code-for-a-living March 1, 2021

Level Up: Mastering statistics with Python – part 3

Comparing summary statistics like the mean and median can help us understand how these variables are related, but we can learn even more by using visualizations.

Ben Popper and Sophie Sommer

code-for-a-living March 1, 2021

Sacrificial architecture: Learning from abandoned systems

One of the tough decisions you and your team may face as you scale is deciding between keeping your current codebase and rebuilding on a new architecture.

Mohamad Aladdin

promotion February 25, 2021

Stack Overflow sponsors Techtonica participants for 2021 cohort

We're partnering with Tectonica to sponsor students eager to learn software engineering.

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code-for-a-living February 24, 2021

What I wish I had known about single page applications

Single page apps are all the rage today, but they don't always operate the same as traditional web pages.

Michael Pratt

code-for-a-living February 23, 2021

Level Up: Mastering statistics with Python – part 2

Investigate a dataset with summary statistics and some basic data visualizations using the Python libraries NumPy, pandas, matplotlib, and Seaborn.

Ben Popper and Sophie Sommer

code-for-a-living February 22, 2021

Choosing Java instead of C++ for low-latency systems

When it comes to developing low latency software systems, the received wisdom is that you would be crazy to use anything but C++ because anything else has too high a latency. But I’m here to convince you of the opposite, counter-intuitive, almost heretical notion: that when it comes to achieving low latency in software systems, Java is better.

Theodoros ‘Theo’ Karasavvas

Three particles showing possible directions and positions

partner-content February 18, 2021

Strangeworks is on a mission to make quantum computing easy…well, easier

To move this technology forward, the tools and platforms surrounding it must become more accessible.

whurley - Founder and CEO, Strangeworks and Medi Madelen Gwosdz