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      <p>While learning and reading up on C++11 recently, I came across the Short String Optimisation.</p>
<p>I&rsquo;d at some point been told (or somehow got it into my head), that C <code>union</code>s are generally dangerous and are something you should steer well clear of, so I&rsquo;d never really known what they were about. However, from learning about the SSO it&rsquo;s clear they can make for some very efficient memory use as …</p>
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      <p>What with REST APIs and the <a href="http://swagger.io/">swagger</a> framework for documenting and integrating them being the in-thing lately, to start getting to grips with them I wanted to see how easy it would be to create a simple one in Python with minimal code from me. Turns out it was very simple.</p>
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