The Python Podcast.init

By Tobias MaceyTechnology Education

The Python Podcast.init episodes

August 13, 2018The Masonite Web Framework With Joe Mancuso
Summary
Masonite is an ambitious new web framework that draws inspiration from many other successful projects in other languages. In this episode Joe Mancuso, the primary author and maintainer, explains his goal of unseating Django from its position of prominence in the Python community. He also discusses his motivation for building it, how it is architected, and how you can start using it for your own projects.
Preface
Hello and welcome to Podcast.__init__, the podcast about Python and the people who make it great.
When you’re ready to launch your next app you’ll need somewhere to deploy it, so check out Linode. With private networking, shared block storage, node balancers, and a 200Gbit network, all controlled by a brand new API you’ve got everything you need to scale up. Go to podcastinit.com/linode to get a $20 credit and launch a new server in under a minute.
Visit the site to subscribe to the show, sign up for the newsletter, and read the show notes. And if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions I would love to hear them. You can reach me on Twitter at @Podcast__init__ or email [email protected])
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Your host as usual is Tobias Macey and today I’m interviewing Joe Mancuso about Masonite, the modern and developer centric python web framework.
Interview
Introductions
How did you get introduced to Python?
What is Masonite and what was the motivation for creating it?
How does it fit in the current landscape of Python web frameworks?

Why might someone choose to use Masonite over Python frameworks?
If someone isn’t already decided on using Python, what are some reasons that they might choose Masonite over frameworks in other languages?

Can you describe the framework architecture and how it has evolved over the lifetime of the project?

What are some examples of projects that have been built with Masonite and what aspects of the framework are they leveraging?

For someone who is starting a new project with Masonite what are some of the concepts that they should be familiar with?
What is their workflow for starting their project?
How does that workflow change when working with an existing application?

What are some of the plans that you have for the future of Masonite?

Keep In Touch
Joe
Blog
@masoniteproject on Twitter
josephmancuso on GitHub

Masonite
MasoniteFramework on GitHub
Docs
Slack

Picks
Tobias
Yeti Mugs

Joe
Gitbook.io
Dev.to

Links
Masonite on GitHub
Codecademy
PHP
Django
Laravel
Dependency Injection
Inversion of Control
WSGI
Gunicorn
Waitress
Nexmo
Masonite Slack
Mathias Johansson
Trello
@masoniteproject
Masonite Repo
Masonite Documentation
The intro and outro music is from Requiem for a Fish The Freak Fandango Orchestra / CC BY-SA
44 min
August 06, 2018 Helping Teacher's Bring Python Into The Classroom With Nicholas Tollervey
There are a number of resources available for teaching beginners to code in Python and many other languages, and numerous endeavors to introduce programming to educational environments. Sometimes those efforts yield success and others can simply lead to frustration on the part of the teacher and the student. In this episode Nicholas Tollervey discusses his work as a teacher and a programmer, his work on the micro:bit project and the PyCon UK education summit, as well as his thoughts on the place that Python holds in educational programs for teaching the next generation.
1 hr
August 06, 2018Helping Teacher's Bring Python Into The Classroom With Nicholas Tollervey
Summary
There are a number of resources available for teaching beginners to code in Python and many other languages, and numerous endeavors to introduce programming to educational environments. Sometimes those efforts yield success and others can simply lead to frustration on the part of the teacher and the student. In this episode Nicholas Tollervey discusses his work as a teacher and a programmer, his work on the micro:bit project and the PyCon UK education summit, as well as his thoughts on the place that Python holds in educational programs for teaching the next generation.
Preface
Hello and welcome to Podcast.__init__, the podcast about Python and the people who make it great.
When you’re ready to launch your next app you’ll need somewhere to deploy it, so check out Linode. With private networking, shared block storage, node balancers, and a 200Gbit network, all controlled by a brand new API you’ve got everything you need to scale up. Go to podcastinit.com/linode to get a $20 credit and launch a new server in under a minute.
Visit the site to subscribe to the show, sign up for the newsletter, and read the show notes. And if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions I would love to hear them. You can reach me on Twitter at @Podcast__init__ or email [email protected])
To help other people find the show please leave a review on iTunes, or Google Play Music, tell your friends and co-workers, and share it on social media.
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Your host as usual is Tobias Macey and today I’m interviewing Nicholas Tollervey about his efforts to improve the accessibility of Python for educators
Interview
Introductions
How did you get introduced to Python?
How has your experience as a teacher influenced your work as a software engineer?
What are some of the ways that practicing software engineers can be most effective in supporting the efforts teachers and students to become computationally literate?
What are your views on the reasons that computational literacy is important for students?

What are some of the most difficult barriers that need to be overcome for students to engage with Python?
How important is it, in your opinion, to expose students to text-based programming, as opposed to the block-based environment of tools such as Scratch?
At what age range do you think we should be trying to engage students with programming?

When the teacher’s day was introduced as part of the education summit for PyCon UK what was the initial reception from the educators who attended?
How has the format for the teacher’s portion of the conference changed in the subsequent years?
What have been some of the most useful or beneficial aspects for the teacher’s and how much engagement occurs between the conferences?

What was your involvement in the initiative that brought the BBC micro:bit to UK classrooms?
What kinds of feedback have you gotten from students who have had an opportunity to use them?
What are some of the most interesting or unexpected uses of the micro:bit that you have seen?

Keep In Touch
@ntoll on Twitter
ntoll on GitHub
Website
Picks
Tobias
The Dark Materials Trilogy Audiobooks by Phillip Pullman

Nicholas
Moon Dust by Andrew Smith
Totally Wired by Andrew Smith

Links
ntoll.org
Tuba
Royal College of Music
Fry IT
MicroPython
Podcast Interview With Damien George

MicroPython Book

Mu

Scratch

Jupyter

John Pinner

London Python Code Dojo

Alan Turing

Tim Berners-Lee

Charles Babbage

REPL (Read-Eval-Print Loop

Daniel Pope

PyGame

Raspberry Pi Foundation

PyGame Zero

Network Zero

GPIO Zero

Computing At School

BBC

PSF

TouchDevelop

TypeScript

Damien George

ARM

Code Kingdoms

micro:bit

Barclay’s

PyCon US Education Summit

Raspberry Pi Foundation Code Club

Qumisha Goss Keynote

Adafruit

CircuitPython

NeoPixel

PyBoard

The intro and outro music is from Requiem for a Fish The Freak Fandango Orchestra / CC BY-SA
1 hr
July 30, 2018 Continuous Delivery For Complex Systems Using Zuul with Monty Taylor
Continuous integration systems are important for ensuring that you don't release broken software. Some projects can benefit from simple, standardized platforms, but as you grow or factor in additional projects the complexity of checking your deployments grows. Zuul is a deployment automation and gating system that was built to power the complexities of OpenStack so it will grow and scale with you. In this episode Monty Taylor explains how he helped start Zuul, how it is designed for scale, and how you can start using it for your continuous delivery systems. He also discusses how Zuul has evolved and the directions it will take in the future.
1 hr 8 min
July 30, 2018Continuous Delivery For Complex Systems Using Zuul with Monty Taylor
Summary
Continuous integration systems are important for ensuring that you don’t release broken software. Some projects can benefit from simple, standardized platforms, but as you grow or factor in additional projects the complexity of checking your deployments grows. Zuul is a deployment automation and gating system that was built to power the complexities of OpenStack so it will grow and scale with you. In this episode Monty Taylor explains how he helped start Zuul, how it is designed for scale, and how you can start using it for your continuous delivery systems. He also discusses how Zuul has evolved and the directions it will take in the future.
Preface
Hello and welcome to Podcast.__init__, the podcast about Python and the people who make it great.
When you’re ready to launch your next app you’ll need somewhere to deploy it, so check out Linode. With private networking, shared block storage, node balancers, and a 200Gbit network, all controlled by a brand new API you’ve got everything you need to scale up. Go to podcastinit.com/linode to get a $20 credit and launch a new server in under a minute.
Visit the site to subscribe to the show, sign up for the newsletter, and read the show notes. And if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions I would love to hear them. You can reach me on Twitter at @Podcast__init__ or email [email protected])
To help other people find the show please leave a review on iTunes, or Google Play Music, tell your friends and co-workers, and share it on social media.
Join the community in the new Zulip chat workspace at podcastinit.com/chat
Your host as usual is Tobias Macey and today I’m interviewing Monty Taylor about Zuul, a platform that drives continuous integration, delivery, and deployment systems with a focus on project gating and interrelated projects.
Interview
Introductions
How did you get introduced to Python?
Can you start by explaining what Zuul is and how the project got started?
How do you view Zuul in the broader landscape of CI/CD systems (e.g. GoCD, Jenkins, Travis, etc.)?
What is the workflow for someone who is defining a pipeline in Zuul?
How are the pipelines tested and promoted?
One of the problems that are often encountered in CI/CD systems is the difficulty of testing changes locally. What kind of support is available in Zuul for that?

Can you describe the project architecture?
What aspects of the architecture enable it to scale to large projects and teams?

How difficult would it be to swap the Ansible integration for another orchestration tool?

What would be involved in adding support for additional version control systems?

What are your plans for the future of the project?

Keep In Touch
emonty on GitHub
Website
@e_monty on Twitter
Picks
Tobias
Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy

Monty
Bojack Horseman

Links
Red Hat
Zuul
OpenStack
Jim Blair
Perl
SNPP
Rackspace
NASA
Drizzle
Sun Microsystems
MySQL
Continuous Integration
Continuous Delivery
Launchpad
Bzr
Jenkins
Jess Frazelle
Graphite
StatsD
graphite.openstack.org
grafana.openstack.org
subunit
Ansible
Helm
Software Factory
Gerrit
Git
Perforce
Subversion
Zookeeper
Gearman
The intro and outro music is from Requiem for a Fish The Freak Fandango Orchestra / CC BY-SA
1 hr 8 min
July 23, 2018 Michael Foord On Testing, Mock, TDD, And The Python Community
Michael Foord has been working on building and testing software in Python for over a decade. One of his most notable and widely used contributions to the community is the Mock library, which has been incorporated into the standard library. In this episode he explains how he got involved in the community, why testing has been such a strong focus throughout his career, the uses and hazards of mocked objects, and how he is transitioning to freelancing full time.
56 min
July 23, 2018Michael Foord On Testing, Mock, TDD, And The Python Community
Summary
Michael Foord has been working on building and testing software in Python for over a decade. One of his most notable and widely used contributions to the community is the Mock library, which has been incorporated into the standard library. In this episode he explains how he got involved in the community, why testing has been such a strong focus throughout his career, the uses and hazards of mocked objects, and how he is transitioning to freelancing full time.
Preface
Hello and welcome to Podcast.__init__, the podcast about Python and the people who make it great.
When you’re ready to launch your next app you’ll need somewhere to deploy it, so check out Linode. With private networking, shared block storage, node balancers, and a 200Gbit network, all controlled by a brand new API you’ve got everything you need to scale up. Go to podcastinit.com/linode to get a $20 credit and launch a new server in under a minute.
Visit the site to subscribe to the show, sign up for the newsletter, and read the show notes. And if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions I would love to hear them. You can reach me on Twitter at @Podcast__init__ or email [email protected])
To help other people find the show please leave a review on iTunes, or Google Play Music, tell your friends and co-workers, and share it on social media.
Join the community in the new Zulip chat workspace at podcastinit.com/chat
Your host as usual is Tobias Macey and today I’m interviewing Michael Foord mockingly, about his career in Python
Interview
Introductions
How did you get introduced to Python?
One of the main threads in your career appears to be software testing. What aspects of testing do you find so interesting and how did you first get exposed to that aspect of building software?
How has the language and ecosystem support for testing evolved over the course of your career?
What are some of the areas that you find it to still be lacking?

Mock is one of your projects that has been widely adopted and ultimately incorporated into the standard library. What was your reason for starting it in the first place?
Mocking can be a controversial topic. What are your current thoughts on how and when to use mocks, stubs, and fixtures?

How do you view the state of the art for testing in Python as it compares to other languages that you have worked in?

You were fairly early in the move to supporting Python 2 and 3 in a single project with Mock. How has that overall experience changed in the intervening years since Python 2.4 and 3.2?

What are some of the notable evolutions in Python and the software industry that you have experienced over your career?

You recently transitioned to acting as a software trainer and consultant full time. Where are you focusing your energy currently and what are your grand plans for the future?

Keep In Touch
Email
Website
Twitter
Picks
Tobias
-Ology Books

Michael
Imaginary Authors
Falling Into The Sea
City On Fire

Links
IronPython
London
IronPython in Action
Mock
UnitTest
Play By Email
Smalltalk
Regular Expression
Dijkstra’s Algorithm
urllib2
Resolver Systems
TDD (Test-Driven Development)
PyCon
Trent Nelson
Fractals
Unicode
Joel Spolsky (Unicode)
OOP (Object-Oriented Programming)
End-to-end Testing
Unit Testing
Canonical
Selenium
Ansible
Ansible Tower
AWX (Open Source Tower Codebase)

Continuous Integration

Continuous Delivery

Agile Software Development

GitHub

GitLab

Jenkins

Nightwatch.js

py.test

Martin Fowler

Monkey Patching

Decorator

Context Manager

autospec

Golang

2to3

Six

Instagram Keynote

Trans-code

Django Girls

PyLadies

Agile Abstractions

David Beazley

The intro and outro music is from Requiem for a Fish The Freak Fandango Orchestra / CC BY-SA
56 min
July 16, 2018 The Past, Present, and Future of Twisted with Moshe Zadka
Twisted is one of the earliest frameworks for developing asynchronous applications in Python and it has yet to fulfill its original purpose. It can be used to build network servers that integrate a multitude of protocols, increase the performance of your I/O bound applications, serve as the full web stack for your WSGI projects, and anything else that needs a battle tested and performant foundation. In this episode long time maintainer Moshe Zadka discusses the history of Twisted, how it has evolved over the years, the transition to Python 3, some of its myriad use cases, and where it is headed in the future. Try it out today and then send some thanks to all of the people who have dedicated their time to building it.
35 min
July 16, 2018The Past, Present, and Future of Twisted with Moshe Zadka
Summary
Twisted is one of the earliest frameworks for developing asynchronous applications in Python and it has yet to fulfill its original purpose. It can be used to build network servers that integrate a multitude of protocols, increase the performance of your I/O bound applications, serve as the full web stack for your WSGI projects, and anything else that needs a battle tested and performant foundation. In this episode long time maintainer Moshe Zadka discusses the history of Twisted, how it has evolved over the years, the transition to Python 3, some of its myriad use cases, and where it is headed in the future. Try it out today and then send some thanks to all of the people who have dedicated their time to building it.
Preface
Hello and welcome to Podcast.__init__, the podcast about Python and the people who make it great.
When you’re ready to launch your next app you’ll need somewhere to deploy it, so check out Linode. With private networking, shared block storage, node balancers, and a 200Gbit network, all controlled by a brand new API you’ve got everything you need to scale up. Go to podcastinit.com/linode to get a $20 credit and launch a new server in under a minute.
To get worry-free releases download GoCD, the open source continous delivery server built by Thoughworks. You can use their pipeline modeling and value stream map to build, control and monitor every step from commit to deployment in one place. And with their new Kubernetes integration it’s even easier to deploy and scale your build agents. Go to podcastinit.com/gocd to learn more about their professional support services and enterprise add-ons.
Visit the site to subscribe to the show, sign up for the newsletter, and read the show notes. And if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions I would love to hear them. You can reach me on Twitter at @Podcast__init__ or email [email protected])
To help other people find the show please leave a review on iTunes, or Google Play Music, tell your friends and co-workers, and share it on social media.
Join the community in the new Zulip chat workspace at podcastinit.com/chat
Your host as usual is Tobias Macey and today I’m interviewing Moshe Zadka about Twisted, the original multi-function tool for asynchronous operations and network protocols in Python
Interview
Introductions
How did you get introduced to Python?
For anyone who isn’t familiar with Twisted can you share a brief overview of what it is?
What was the original motivation for creating it?
How did you get involved with the project and what is your current role in the team?

How can people learn to use Twisted?
What are some of the common difficulties that new users encounter?

What did you learn working on Twisted?

Who uses Twisted?
When is Twisted the wrong choice?
What are some examples of systems that aren’t using Twisted but should be?

What are some of the ways that Twisted has evolved and changed over the years?

What are some of the ways people can support Twisted?

What are some of the plans for the future of Twisted?

Keep In Touch
Moshe Zadka
Twisted
Mailing List
IRC

Picks
Tobias
Leatherman Wave+

Moshe
Unsong Book

Links
Twisted
Glyph Lefkowitz
IRC
async/await
Pyvideo
PyCon 2017 Tutorial
asyncio
GTK
SNMP
Gunicorn
uWSGI
WSGI
Nginx
Supervisor
asynchat
asyncore
Ncolony
The Ultimate Quality Development System
Moshe’s article on UQDS

Unicode prefix

2to3

Six

Unit Tests

Automat

TLA+
PyCon CA Presentation

Sans IO
Cory Benfield’s talk

Tubes

Hyper

H2

H11

Apple Calendar Server Github

Duo Security using Cyclone

Matrix — Used by French government

AIOHTTP

The intro and outro music is from Requiem for a Fish The Freak Fandango Orchestra / CC BY-SA
35 min
July 08, 2018 Mike Driscoll And His Career In Python
Mike Driscoll has been writing blogs and books for the Python community for years, including his popular series on the Python Module Of The Week. In his daily work he uses Python to test graphical interfaces written in C++ and QT for embedded platforms. In this episode he explains his work, how he got involved in writing as a regular exercise, and an overview of his recent books.
24 min