Have you heard people say that async Python code is faster than "normal" (or sync) Python code? How can that be? In this article I'm going to try to explain what async is and how it differs from normal Python code.
Source: Sync vs. Async Python: What is the Difference?, an article by Miguel Grinberg.
Go has a problem. Go modules place a strange naming requirement on modules version 2 or greater. Module names on modules v2+ must end in the major version ala
…/v2, and communication of this rule has been weak. It's non-obvious, and the community at large does not understand it.I have seen many very large projects including Google owned projects get it wrong.
I brought the issue up at my local Go meetup, and no one had ever heard about the rule. They were very skeptical the rule existed at all.
Source: Go Modules have a v2+ Problem, an article by Jesse Donat.
Letsencrypt is a pretty neat concept: free secure certificates for web servers, in order to increase the adoption of HTTPS across the web. The basic idea is that certificates should be free, that the barrier to install them should be as low as possible and that updating certificates should be automated. It protects this site and many 100’s of millions besides. The advantages are that in-flight data can no longer be easily snooped and that injection of data into pages is made either much harder or even impossible. From a security point of view it is a huge step forward.
Source: Letsencrypt, the Good, The bad and the Ugly, an article by Jacques Mattheij.