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Michael Kennedy

Portland
As seen in: Python Bytes, Talk Python To Me, Product Hunt, Lexology, Coda Story, CODE Magazine, NextByte1
A Python enthusiast and entrepreneur. Host of @TalkPython and @PythonBytes, founder of Talk Python Training. Python Software Foundation Fellow.
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OWASP Top 10 (2025 List) for Python Devs

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By Michael Kennedy
| Talk Python To Me
Episode Deep Dive Tanya Janca (aka SheHacksPurple) is returning to Talk Python To Me, and her resume keeps getting deeper. She's a former software developer who, as she puts it, "went to the dark side" into application security, and has since written two books on secure coding, the most recent being Alice and Bob Learn Secure Coding.
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Cutting Python Web App Memory Over 31%

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By Michael Kennedy
| mkennedy.codes
2026-04-01 python web performance devops async architecture memory 8 min read tl;dr; I cut 3.2 GB of memory usage from our Python web apps using five techniques: async workers, import isolation, the Raw+DC database pattern, local imports for heavy libraries, and disk-based caching. Here are the exact before-and-after numbers for each optimization. Over the past few weeks, I’ve been ruthlessly focused on reducing memory usage on my web apps, APIs, and daemons.
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Raw+DC Database Pattern: A Retrospective

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By Michael Kennedy
| mkennedy.codes
2026-03-30 mongodb python raw-dc database performance web-development async 3 min read TL;DR; After migrating three production Python web apps from MongoEngine to the Raw+DC database pattern, I measured nearly 2x the requests per second, 18% less memory, and gained native async support. Raw+DC delivered real-world performance gains, not just synthetic benchmarks. About a month ago, I wrote about a new design pattern I’m seeing gain traction in the software space: Raw+DC: The ORM pattern of 2026.
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