The Python Podcast.__init__

The Python Podcast.__init__ episodes:

• 12.12.2022

  Update Your Model's View Of The World In Real Time With Streaming Machine Learning Using River

  Preamble This is a cross-over episode from our new show The Machine Learning Podcast, the show about going from idea to production with machine learning. Summary The majority of machine learning projects that you read about or work on are built around batch...

  
• 12.05.2022

  Declarative Machine Learning For High Performance Deep Learning Models With Predibase

  Preamble This is a cross-over episode from our new show The Machine Learning Podcast, the show about going from idea to production with machine learning. Summary Deep learning is a revolutionary category of machine learning that accelerates our ability to build powerful inference...

  
• 11.28.2022

  Build Better Machine Learning Models With Confidence By Adding Validation With Deepchecks

  Preamble This is a cross-over episode from our new show The Machine Learning Podcast, the show about going from idea to production with machine learning. Summary Machine learning has the potential to transform industries and revolutionize business capabilities, but only if the models...

  
• 11.21.2022

  Build A Full Stack ML Powered App In An Afternoon With Baseten

  Preamble This is a cross-over episode from our new show The Machine Learning Podcast, the show about going from idea to production with machine learning. Summary Building an ML model is getting easier than ever, but it is still a challenge to get...

  
• 11.07.2022

  Skip Straight To The Fun Part Of Your Project With PyScaffold

  Summary Starting a new project is always exciting and full of possibility, until you have to set up all of the repetitive boilerplate. Fortunately there are useful project templates that eliminate that drudgery. PyScaffold goes above and beyond simple template repositories,...

  
• 10.30.2022

  Add Configuration Best Practices To Your Application In An Afternoon With Dynaconf

  Summary Application configuration is a deceptively complex problem. Everyone who is building a project that gets used more than once will end up needing to add configuration to control aspects of behavior or manage connections to other systems and services. At...

  
• 10.23.2022

  Take A Tour Of The Hidden Language Of Hardware And How It Powers Your Code

  Summary Software is eating the world, but that code has to have hardware to execute the instructions. Most people, and many software engineers, don’t have a proper understanding of how that hardware functions. Charles Petzold wrote the book "Code: The Hidden...

  
• 10.16.2022

  Take Control Of Your Electrical Systems With The Open Source FlexMeasures Energy Management System

  Summary The generation, distribution, and consumption of energy is one of the most critical pieces of infrastructure for the modern world. With the rise of renewable energy there is an accompanying need for systems that can respond in real-time to the...

  
• 10.10.2022

  How And Why To Build Effective Teams As An Engineering Leader

  Summary Your ability to build and maintain a software project is tempered by the strength of the team that you are working with. If you are in a position of leadership, then you are responsible for the growth and maintenance of...

  
• 10.03.2022

  Complete Your Hardware "Weekend Projects" In An Actual Weekend With Belay

  Summary Working on hardware projects often has significant friction involved when compared to pure software. Brian Pugh enjoys tinkering with microcontrollers, but his "weekend projects" often took longer than a weekend to complete, so he created Belay. In this episode he...

  
• 09.19.2022

  Catching Up With Pyre, A Fast Type Checker For Python

  Summary Static typing versus dynamic typing is one of the oldest debates in software development. In recent years a number of dynamic languages have worked toward a middle ground by adding support for type hints. Python’s type annotations have given rise...

  
• 09.13.2022

  Standardizing On Python For All Software Projects At Ascend.io

  Summary Every software project is subject to a series of decisions and tradeoffs. One of the first decisions to make is which programming language to use. For companies where their product is software, this is a decision that can have significant...

  
• 09.05.2022

  Exploring The Process And Practice Of Building Better Software Through Code Reviews

  Summary Writing code is only one piece of creating good software. Code reviews are an important step in the process of building applications that are maintainable and sustainable. In this episode On Freund shares his thoughts on the myriad purposes that...

  
• 08.28.2022

  Ship With Confidence By Automating Quality Assurance

  Summary Quality assurance in the software industry has become a shared responsibility in most organizations. Given the rapid pace of development and delivery it can be challenging to ensure that your application is still working the way it’s supposed to with...

  
• 08.14.2022

  Remove Roadblocks And Let Your Developers Ship Faster With Self-Serve Infrastructure

  Summary The goal of every software team is to get their code into production without breaking anything. This requires establishing a repeatable process that doesn’t introduce unnecessary roadblocks and friction. In this episode Ronak Rahman discusses the challenges that development teams...

  
• 07.31.2022

  The Benefits Of Python And Django For Going From Zero To MVP At Speed

  Summary Every startup begins with an idea, but that won’t get you very far without testing the feasibility of that idea. A common practice is to build a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) that addresses the problem that you are trying to...

  
• 07.25.2022

  Powering The Next Generation Of Application Architectures With Web Assembly And The Fermyon Platform

  Summary Application architectures have been in a constant state of evolution as new infrastructure capabilities are introduced. Virtualization, cloud, containers, mobile, and now web assembly have each introduced new options for how to build and deploy software. Recognizing the transformative potential...

  
• 07.17.2022

  Gain A Deeper Understanding Of What Your Code Is Doing And Where It Spends Its Time With VizTracer

  Summary As your code scales beyond a trivial level of complexity and sophistication it becomes difficult or impossible to know everything that it is doing. The flow of logic and data through your software and which parts are taking the most...

  
• 07.10.2022

  Stream Processing In Real Time And At Scale In Pure Python With Bytewax

  Summary Analysis of streaming data in real time has long been the domain of big data frameworks, predominantly written in Java. In order to take advantage of those capabilities from Python requires using client libraries that suffer from impedance mis-matches that...

  
• 07.03.2022

  Tetra: A Full Stack Web Framework That Doesn't Make You Write Everything Twice

  Summary Building a fully functional web application has been growing in complexity along with the growing popularity of javascript UI frameworks such as React, Vue, Angular, etc. Users have grown to expect interactive experiences with dynamic page updates, which leads to...

  
• 06.27.2022

  Design Real-World Objects In Python With CadQuery

  Summary Virtually everything that you interact with on a daily basis and many other things that make modern life possible were designed and modeled in software called CAD or Computer-Aided Design. These programs are advanced suites with graphical editing environments tailored...

  
• 06.15.2022

  Intelligent Dependency Resolution For Optimal Compatibility And Security With Project Thoth

  Summary Building any software project is going to require relying on dependencies that you and your team didn’t write or maintain, and many of those will have dependencies of their own. This has led to a wide variety of potential and...

  
• 05.30.2022

  Take A Deep Dive On How Code Completion Works And How To Customize It

  Summary Most developers have encountered code completion systems and rely on them as part of their daily work. They allow you to stay in the flow of programming, but have you ever stopped to think about how they work? In this...

  
• 05.24.2022

  Hunting Black Swans With Bees: Catching Up With The Inimitable Russell Keith-Magee

  Summary Russell Keith-Magee is an accomplished engineer and a fixture of the Python community. His work on the Beeware suite of projects is one of the most ambitious undertakings in the ecosystem and unfailingly forward-looking. With his recent transition to working...

  
• 05.16.2022

  Take Control Of Your Digital Photos By Running Your Own Smart Library Manager With LibrePhotos

  Summary Digital cameras and the widespread availability of smartphones has allowed us all to generate massive libraries of personal photographs. Unfortunately, now we are all left to our own devices of how to manage them. While cloud services such as iPhotos...

  
• 05.10.2022

  Making Investment Data Easy To Access And Analyze With The OpenBB Terminal

  Summary Investing effectively is largely a game of information access and analysis. This can involve a substantial amount of research and time spent on finding, validating, and acquiring different information sources. In order to reduce the barrier to entry and provide...

  
• 05.02.2022

  Accelerate Your Machine Learning Experimentation With Automatic Checkpoints Using FLOR

  Summary The experimentation phase of building a machine learning model requires a lot of trial and error. One of the limiting factors of how many experiments you can try is the length of time required to train the model which can...

  
• 04.25.2022

  Automatically Enforce Software Structures With Powerful Code Modifications Powered By LibCST

  Summary Programmers love to automate tedious processes, including refactoring your code. In order to support the creation of code modifications for your Python projects Jimmy Lai created LibCST. It provides a richly typed and high level API for creating and manipulating...

  
• 04.19.2022

  Cloud Native Networking For Developers With The Gloo Platform

  Summary Communication is a fundamental requirement for any program or application. As the friction involved in deploying code has gone down, the motivation for architecting your system as microservices goes up. This shifts the communication patterns in your software from function...

  
• 04.11.2022

  Accelerate And Simplify Cloud Native Development For Kubernetes Environments With Gefyra

  Summary Cloud native architectures have been gaining prominence for the past few years due to the rising popularity of Kubernetes. This introduces new complications to development workflows due to the need to integrate with multiple services as you build new components...

  
• 03.28.2022

  Building A Community And Technology Stack For Scalable Big Data Geoscience At Pangeo

  Summary Science is founded on the collection and analysis of data. For disciplines that rely on data about the earth the ability to simulate and generate that data has been growing faster than the tools for analysis of that data can...

  
• 03.20.2022

  Automating Application Lifecycles For Developer Happiness At Wayfair

  Summary A common piece of advice when starting anything new is to "begin with the end in mind". In order to help the engineers at Wayfair manage the complete lifecycle of their applications Joshua Woodward runs a team that provides tooling...

  
• 03.14.2022

  Run Your Applications Reliably On Kubernetes Without Losing Sleep With Robusta

  Summary Kubernetes is a framework that aims to simplify the work of running applications in production, but it forces you to adopt new patterns for debugging and resolving issues in your systems. Robusta is aimed at making that a more pleasant...

  
• 03.06.2022

  Accelerate The Development And Delivery Of Your Machine Learning Applications Using Ray And Deploy It At Anyscale

  Summary Building a machine learning application is inherently complex. Once it becomes necessary to scale the operation or training of the model, or introduce online re-training the process becomes even more challenging. In order to reduce the operational burden of AI...

  
• 02.28.2022

  See The Structure Of Your Software At A Glance With Call Graphs From Code2Flow

  Summary As software projects grow and change it can become difficult to keep track of all of the logical flows. By visualizing the interconnections of function definitions, classes, and their invocations you can speed up the time to comprehension for newcomers...

  
• 02.21.2022

  Scaling Knowledge Management For Technical Teams With Knowledge Repo

  Summary One of the most persistent challenges faced by organizations of all sizes is the recording and distribution of institutional knowledge. In technical teams this is exacerbated by the need to incorporate technical review feedback and manage access to data before...

  
• 02.14.2022

  Simplify And Scale Your Software Development Cycles By Putting On Pants (Build Tool)

  Summary Software development is a complex undertaking due to the number of options available and choices to be made in every stage of the lifecycle. In order to make it more scaleable it is necessary to establish common practices and patterns...

  
• 02.06.2022

  Achieve Repeatable Builds Of Your Software On Any Machine With Earthly

  Summary It doesn’t matter how amazing your application is if you are unable to deliver it to your users. Frustrated with the rampant complexity involved in building and deploying software Vlad A. Ionescu created the Earthly tool to reduce the toil...

  
• 01.31.2022

  Building A Detailed View Of Your Software Delivery Process With The Eiffel Protocol

  Summary The process of getting software delivered to an environment where users can interact with it requires many steps along the way. In some cases the journey can require a large number of interdependent workflows that need to be orchestrated across...

  
• 01.24.2022

  Improve Your Productivity By Investing In Developer Experience Design For Your Projects

  Summary When we are creating applications we spend a significant amount of effort on optimizing the experience of our end users to ensure that they are able to complete the tasks that the system is intended for. A similar effort that...

  
• 01.15.2022

  An Exploration Of Effective Pandas Practices With Matt Harrison

  Summary Pandas has grown to be a ubiquitous tool for working with data at every stage. It has become so well known that many people learn Python solely for the purpose of using Pandas. With all of this activity and the...

  
• 01.13.2022

  Generate Your Text Files With Python Using Cog

  Summary Developers hate wasting effort on manual processes when we can write code to do it instead. Cog is a tool to manage the work of automating the creation of text inside another file by executing arbitrary Python code. In this...

  
• 01.02.2022

  A Friendly Approach To Regression Models For Programmers

  Summary Statistical regression models are a staple of predictive forecasts in a wide range of applications. In this episode Matthew Rudd explains the various types of regression models, when to use them, and his work on the book "Regression: A Friendly...

  
• 12.27.2021

  Fast, Flexible, and Incremental Task Automation With doit

  Summary Every software project needs a tool for managing the repetitive tasks that are involved in building, running, and deploying the code. Frustrated with the limitations of tools like Make, Scons, and others Eduardo Schettino created doit to handle task automation...

  
• 12.20.2021

  The Technological, Business, and Sales Challenges Of Building The Ethical Ads Network

  Summary Whether we like it or not, advertising is a common and effective way to make money on the internet. In order to support the work being done at Read The Docs they decided to include advertisements on the documentation sites...

  
• 12.12.2021

  Accidentally Building A Business With Python At Listen Notes

  Summary Podcasts are one of the few mediums in the internet era that are still distributed through an open ecosystem. This has a number of benefits, but it also brings the challenge of making it difficult to find the content that...

  
• 11.27.2021

  Making Orbital Mechanics More Accessible With Poliastro

  Summary Outer space holds a deep fascination for people of all ages, and the key principle in its exploration both near and far is orbital mechanics. Poliastro is a pure Python package for exploring and simulating orbit calculations. In this episode...

  
• 11.22.2021

  Declarative Deep Learning From Your Laptop To Production With Ludwig and Horovod

  Summary Deep learning frameworks encourage you to focus on the structure of your model ahead of the data that you are working with. Ludwig is a tool that uses a data oriented approach to building and training deep learning models so...

  
• 11.22.2021

  Build Better Analytics And Models With A Focus On The Data Experience

  Summary A lot of time and energy goes into data analysis and machine learning projects to address various goals. Most of the effort is focused on the technical aspects and validating the results, but how much time do you spend on...

  
• 11.06.2021

  Building Conversational AI to Augment Sales Teams at Structurely

  Summary The true power of artificial intelligence is its ability to work collaboratively with humans. Nate Joens co-founded Structurely to create a conversational AI platform that augments human sales teams to help guide potential customers through the initial steps of the...