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Ruby and Python's standard implementations make use of a Global Interpreter Lock. Justin James explains the major advantages and downsides of the GIL mechanism. Multithreading and parallel processing ...

Cloud computing platforms have become very important in recent years for a wide variety of purposes, from serving websites through to scientific analysis, and the BBC has been an enthusiastic adopter ...

Cloud computing platforms have become very important in recent years for a wide variety of purposes, from serving websites through to scientific analysis, and the BBC has been an enthusiastic adopter ...

Aspiring data-science and machine-learning developers now have more Microsoft-made free video tutorials to learn how to build software in Python, one of today's most popular and versatile programming ...