A group of Blue Yonder data scientists and engineers will be at the EuroSciPy 2018 in Trento, Italy from August 28th to September 1st as well as at the SRECon18 from August 29th to 31st in Düsseldorf, Germany. EuroSciPy is the largest European conference … Read More
PyCon.DE Part 5: Using Ansible properly
Last but not least, in our final Part 5 of our PyCon.DE series we´ll present our talk “No Compromise: Use Ansible properly or stick to your scripts”. What you do within this IT automation tool should be clean an simple. … Read More
PyCon.DE Part 4: Observing applications with Sentry and Prometheus
In Part 4 of our PyCon.DE series we´ll demonstrate how to observe your applications with Sentry and Prometheus. If you have services running in production, something will fail sooner or later. We cannot avoid this completely, but we can prepare for … Read More
PyCon.DE Part 3: Connecting Python to Big Data Landscapes using Arrow and Parquet
At last year´s PyCon.DE, from October 25th till 27th, Blue Yonder held several interesting talks around Python. In case you missed out the event, we would like to share the best of our talks at the conference. While Python itself … Read More
PyCon.DE Part 2: The Snake in the Tar Pit – Complex Systems with Python
The Zen of Python motivates us to build software that is easy to maintain and to extend. In reality however, we often end up with systems that are quite the opposite: complex and hard to change. In part 2 of … Read More
PyCon.DE Part 1: Turbodbc – Turbocharged database access for data scientists
At last year´s PyCon.DE, from October 25th till 27th, Blue Yonder held several interesting talks around Python. In case you missed out the event, we would like to share the best of our talks at the conference in this and … Read More
Open text files in legacy Python
At a first glance, opening files in Python is easy. All you have to do is call the built-in function open() and then you start reading from the file. However, often the content to be read is text, not just … Read More
Blue Yonder at PyCon.DE 2017 and PyData Karlsruhe
Blue Yonder uses Python throughout its technology stack. We are aware that we profit a lot from open source and it has been always our policy to give back to the community. We have open sourced libraries like turbodbc, sqlalchemy_exasol, Mesos … Read More
Turbodbc and Apache Arrow
With the release of turbodbc 2.0.0, the popular ODBC module for Python provides built-in support for Apache Arrow, a universal data layer for fast column-oriented analytics. Head over to our guest post at the Apache Arrow blog to learn more … Read More
Public cloud cost control with Prometheus
Over the past decade, the entire IT industry has been pushing toward cloud computing. A recent article by Gartner argues the IT industry will be entering a second wave of cloud computing growth fueled by enterprise adoption. At Blue Yonder, we use the … Read More
