This article is a continuation of Part I (A comprehensive guide to migrating from Python 2(Legacy Python) to Python 3) which details the changes, improvements in Python 3 and why they are important. This rest of the article details automated tools, strategies and role of testing in the migration from ... Read more

Comprehensive Guide to Migrating from Python 2 (Legacy Python) to Python 3. Python powers many applications we use day-to-day like Reddit, Instagram, Dropbox, Spotify, etc. The adoption of Python 3 has been a subject of debate in the Python community for long. While Python 3 has been out for more than a decade now, but there wasn’t much incentive to migrate ... Read more

Flask is Python’s most popular web application framework. Learn how you can use Flask to establish a strong foundation for a full stack application. Read more

The Scout team will be headed to Miami February 6-8 to SunshinePHP Developer Conference . If you're headed to the event, stop by our booth to meet Marty and PJ and learn more about our support for Laravel apps and the upcoming release of Symfony support. We'll have plenty of ... Read more

In this article, we'll be comparing the features and performances of two server-side programming languages; Python and Java. The intent is to provide enough knowledge to make an informed decision about which language to pick for your use-case when faced with such a situation. Read more

In this blog post, we'll be going through two server-side scripting languages; Python and Ruby with focus on comparing the performance and other factors that might help you in deciding which language to pick over the other for your web application. Read more

Scout Now Partnering With API Management Leader DreamFactory At Scout, we pride ourselves in building a tool that is focused on the developers’ ability to quickly identify performance issues within their applications so they can fix them and resume building the fun stuff. DreamFactory is a robust role-based access tool ... Read more

Python powers many applications we use day-to-day like Reddit, Instagram, Dropbox, Spotify and so on. Adoption of Python 3 has been a subject of debate in the Python community for long. While Python 3 has been out for more than a decade now, but there wasn’t much incentive to migrate from the stable Python 2.7 in the earlier releases, but with its end of life in January 2020 it’s high time to migrate. Read more

Memory management in python: Yes, you heard it right “memory management in python”. You must be thinking: why do I need to manage the memory in any high-level language like python? Read more

Protocol Buffers are a way to encode data before transportation, which efficiently shrinks data blocks and therefore increases speed when sending it. It abstracts data into a language-and  platform-neutral format. Read more