Hi, I'm Youssef and I'm a member of the technical staff at Microsoft AI based in Palo Alto. I've previously worked at Palantir, Color, and Inflection AI. These are the long-form chronicles of my adventures building software.
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Solving Django race conditions with select_for_update and optimistic updates
January 12, 2023 · 8 min readIf you're running Django at scale, you're bound to run into race conditions sooner or later. In this blog post, we explore two different methods of solving a common class of race conditions: select_for_update and optimistic updates. -
Writing Python in VS Code just got a whole lot better
December 11, 2022 · 3 min readDeveloping Python applications in VS Code just got a lot better this week with the release of Pylance version 2022.12.21. It introduces a new option that lets you auto import user symbols, saving you time and reducing interruptions to your flow.