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This week we have an exciting interview with Pydantic's creator Samuel Colvin.

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NOTE that it's best to watch this episode on YouTube, because Samuel demos Pydantic's new Logfire product as well as a bit of FastUI. 💡 💪 😍
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Delving into the origins, Samuel shares with us how Pydantic was conceived to streamline data validation, drawing inspiration from similar tools but quickly exceeding expectations in popularity and adoption. 📈

Samuel touches on the monumental speed improvements in version 2, achieved by incorporating Rust, shares insights into the transition of Pydantic into a company and its future vision. We also touch upon front-end development for which he developed another library called FastUI. 😎

And last but not least Samuel demos Pydantic's new exciting Logfire product that was just released. 💡 😍

Chapters:
00:00 Intro Samuel
01:57 Win of the week
02:23 Pydantic framework and company backstory
05:10 FastAPI's part in Pydantic's grow
06:20 Adapting to framework dependencies
07:50 Making Pydantic faster with Rust
12:15 Learning Rust or not as a Python dev
14:16 Pydantic as a company
15:46 Open source ideas vs business requirements
17:20 Introducing Pydantic Logfire
19:15 Live demo (YouTube)
25:12 Resource / energy measuring with Logfire
26:41 Pydantic's vision for the next years
29:46 Doing front-end with FastUI (short demo)
31:13 Using FastUI at Pydantic and the team
33:56 Pybites ad
34:12 FastUI vs Streamlit for fast prototyping
36:46 Key skills for Python devs / open source in 2024
38:10 Work life balance / build things as a customer
41:00: Advice for entrepreneurial minded developers
42:48 Hobbies / interests outside of work
43:26 Podcast recommendation
43:50 Wrap up and outro

Links:
- Check out Pydantic Logfire here
- Reach out to Samuel on X
- Pybites Ad segment: The PDM Program

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