Senior Cloud Architect & Backend Specialist, Seattle, Washington, USA 🇺🇸
Education:
M.S. in Distributed Systems, University of Washington
B.S. in Computer Science, Purdue University
Expertise: System Design, Microservices, Go (Golang), Kubernetes, AWS.
Bio: Marcus is a backend veteran with over 12 years of experience shipping production code. He spent the last six years at a major fintech unicorn helping migrate their legacy monoliths into scalable microservices. When he isn’t arguing about the merits of gRPC vs REST on Twitter, he is usually found optimizing SQL queries or writing technical deep-dives on concurrency patterns in Go. He believes that "premature optimization is the root of all evil, but bad database design is the root of all suffering."
Choosing between lists and tuples in Python directly affects your code's performance, memory usage, and reliability. This guide explains the technical differences and when to use each data structure. Lists are mutable, ordered collections defined with square brackets []. You can add, remove, or modify…
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