The community mourns the loss of Michael Foord, a prominent figure who initiated Language Summit events at PyCon and created the mock library. Colleagues share their memories, revealing the profound impact he had on Python and its development community. The article also touches on the capabilities of Valkey, an open-source datastore, highlighting its flexibility for different workloads. Best practices from Foord's 2017 advice on software development emphasize principles like YAGNI and proper testing focus.
Michael, an original thinker if there ever was one, started the tradition of having Language Summit events at PyCon, IIRC together with Barry Warsaw. He also wrote and contributed the influential mock library.
After 5 years of trying, I did get an interview with Michael. I wish I'd have gotten that followup.
Some gems in best practices include YAGNI and the recommendation that unit tests should focus on the unit of behavior, not the unit of implementation.
Valkey is an open-source high-performance key/value datastore that supports diverse workloads, running standalone or clustered with replication and high availability options. It supports various datatypes.
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