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Articles tagged with profiling

Profiling web endpoints for fun and profit

Overview

At VXSoft we treat performance as a feature and try to address issues related to it with extreme seriousness. Our products are mainly web applications, thus affected by all performance (e.g. traffic spikes, poorly written code, database performance) and security issues (OWASP top ten) of general web applications …

Pain and gain of parsing large XML in Python

Overview

The task was straightforward: implement a simple stand-alone application which will parse a provided XML file containing Base64 encoded attachments and save them to the specified folder. The particular XML represents the structure of a dossier for a single medical product according to the specification. The resulting application was …