backon is a modern evolution of backoff — a zero-dependency Python library for retry with exponential backoff. It provides decorator, functional, and context manager APIs for both sync and async code.

These are my go-to libraries for Python data crunching.

Every Python developer knows some or all of these libraries, because they’re stable, reliable, and excellent at what they do.

I've been running Qwen 3.5 9B since I have 16GB VRAM, but this machine also has 64GB DRAM, is running something bigger feasible with spillage onto RAM or is the extra latency and splitting across VRAM ...