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Python in Production: Real-World Use Cases, Challenges, and Quality Assurance

June 9, 2025

Discover how Python is used in large-scale production systems beyond ML/AI, including web backends and data engineering, and learn about the trade-offs and best practices for success.

Python Production Web Development Data Engineering Code Quality Software Engineering Practices Talent Pool Performance Trade-Offs Scalability

Docker Compose for Production? A PaaS Idea Sparks Debate

June 9, 2025

A Hacker News discussion analyzes the pros and cons of a platform that deploys Docker Compose apps to production, covering simplicity, operational challenges, and comparisons to Kubernetes.

Docker Compose Paas Production Deployment Kubernetes Container Orchestration Simplicity Operational Challenges Security Scalability Indie Hackers

Choosing Your Message Queue in 2025: Developer Insights on Kafka, RabbitMQ, NATS, and More

May 24, 2025

Developers share their go-to message queues, discussing trade-offs between Kafka, RabbitMQ, NATS, Redis Streams, SQS, Postgres, and others. Key themes include operational simplicity, queues vs. streams, and real-world experiences.

Message Queue Kafka Rabbitmq Nats Redis Streams Sqs Postgres Distributed Systems Software Architecture Event Sourcing Pub-Sub Microservices Beanstalkd Pulsar Zeromq Kinesis Sidekiq Operational Complexity Scalability Reliability