I spent the last couple of days thinking about Python 3's current state alot. While it might not appear to be the case, I do love Python as alanguage and especially the direction it's heading in. Python has been notonly part of my life for the last couple of five years, it has been thelargest part by far.Let there be a warning upfront: this is a very personal post. I counted ahundred instances of a certain capital letter in this text.That's because I am very grateful for all the opportunities I got over thelast few years to travel the world, to talk to people and to share thespirit that an ...

Cloud computing is often positioned as a solution to scalability problems. In fact, it seems like almost every day I read a blog post about a company moving infrastructure to the cloud. At Mixpanel, we did the opposite. I’m writing this post to explain why and maybe even encourage some other startups to consider the alternative.First though, I wanted to write a short bit about the advantages of cloud servers since they are ideal for some use cases.Low initial costs. Specifically, you can get a cloud server for less than $20. Even the cheapest dedicated servers (and I wouldn’...