A developer has created seventy free hands-on workshops covering Python decorators, monkey patching, and code instrumentation across five collections, progressing from standard library basics through wrapt library techniques to real-world tracing applications. The workshops consolidate decades of expertise maintained through open source projects like wrapt and prior work on the New Relic Python agent.
Current molecular biology tools force researchers to choose between speed, cell viability, and measurement breadth, but controlling cells like a closed-loop system requires all three. The author argues that solving diseases requires new instruments that can measure living cells in real time across many variables, not simply collecting more data with existing destructive methods.