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Convert Bytes to String in Python: A Tutorial for Beginners

KDnuggets

Strings are common built-in data types in Python. But sometimes, you may need to work with bytes instead. Let’s learn how to convert bytes to string in Python.

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Functional Python, Part II: Dial M for Monoid

Tweag

Last time I wrote about how Python’s 1 type system and syntax is now flexible enough to represent and utilise algebraic data types ergonomically. Here, I’ll develop that idea further by way of a motivating example, for which I shall make use of some functional programming “tricks” to arrive at an efficient Python implementation.

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How to Stream JSON Data Using Server-Sent Events and FastAPI in Python over HTTP?

Workfall

FastAPI is a modern, high-performance web framework for creating Python APIs using standard type hints. Hands-On Required installations: To perform the demo, you require the following installations: aiohttp: It is a Python library for asynchronous HTTP client/server communication, built on top of asyncio. What is FastAPI?

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Open-Sourcing AvroTensorDataset: A Performant TensorFlow Dataset For Processing Avro Data

LinkedIn Engineering

An Avro file is formatted with the following bytes: Figure 1: Avro file and data block byte layout The Avro file consists of four “magic” bytes, file metadata (including a schema, which all objects in this file must conform to), a 16-byte file-specific sync marker, and a sequence of data blocks separated by the file’s sync marker.

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Modern Data Engineering: Free Spark to Snowpark Migration Accelerator for Faster, Cheaper Pipelines in Snowflake

Snowflake

With familiar DataFrame-style programming and custom code execution, Snowpark lets teams process their data in Snowflake using Python and other programming languages by automatically handling scaling and performance tuning. Snowflake customers see an average of 4.6x faster performance and 35% cost savings with Snowpark over managed Spark.

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MezzFS?—?Mounting object storage in Netflix’s media processing platform

Netflix Tech

The solution: MezzFS MezzFS is a Python application that implements the FUSE interface. That is, all mounted files that were opened and every single byte range read that MezzFS received. Finally, MezzFS will record various statistics about the mount, including: total bytes downloaded, total bytes read, total time spent reading, etc.

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Aligning Velox and Apache Arrow: Towards composable data management

Engineering at Meta

Oftentimes these components have to directly share in-memory datasets with each other, for example, when transferring data across language boundaries (C++ to Java or Python) for efficient UDF support. In the new representation , the first four bytes of the view object always contain the string size.