In Praise of Stacked PRs
“Stacked PRs” is the practice of breaking up a large change into smaller, individually reviewable PRs which can depend on each other, forming a DAG.
Source: In Praise of Stacked PRs, an article by Ben Congdon.
DNS Response Size
Pop quiz: What is the maximum number of A records in a DNS round robin? Or the largest number of bytes in a TXT record? Maybe it's all the same, and we should ask what is the maximum size of a DNS response? Is it...
- 512 bytes
- 1232 bytes
- 65536 bytes
- "It depends."
Let's find out. The answer is, as all things involving the DNS, entertaining.
Source: DNS Response Size, an article by Jan Schaumann.
4 Pandas Anti-Patterns to Avoid and How to Fix Them
pandas is a powerful data analysis library with a rich API that offers multiple ways to perform any given data manipulation task. Some of these approaches are better than others, and pandas users often learn suboptimal coding practices that become their default workflows.
Source: 4 Pandas Anti-Patterns to Avoid and How to Fix Them, an article by Aidan Cooper.