MongoDB is probably the world's most popular document database. It may not be well known, but MongoDB released their first driver for Rust back in 2013. Since then regular driver updates have been released, supporting new database features and adding improvements. This year, the driver was rewritte…

I got to be on a panel with Tania Allard!

Sometimes I do stupid things with Python. I'm not proud of it.

Okay, I am proud of it.

It's my first ever DjangoCon Europe talk!

This 10 minute talk attempts to list and counteract the eight most common myths about MongoDB. If you didn't know that MongoDB was a secure, robust, ACID-compliant, transactional, relational database, then you should probably watch this talk.

A deep dive into how inheritance and metaclasses work in Python.

An opinionated guide to building and distributing high-quality Python packages.

What exactly are functions? Let's talk about functions, methods, callables and closures - what they are, what you can give them, what they can give you, what you can do with them ... and what's inside.

So you've released a library! Now you need to maintain it. You want to add features, restructure the code, fix bugs, and maybe improve the library's usability. Your users just want their code to carry on working. That's okay!