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The Python Podcast.init

by Tobias Macey · English · Tech & Science

Conversations with the people who build the Python ecosystem — framework authors, library maintainers, data scientists, infrastructure engineers and community organizers.

New episodes: Weekly
Typical length: 51 min
Latest: 12 Dec 2022
Language: English

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12 Dec 2022 · 1 hr 16 min

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 processes. The model is trained, and then validated, and then deployed, with each step being a discrete and isolated task. Unfortunately, the real world is rarely static, leading to concept drift and model failures. River is a framework for building streaming machine learning projects that can constantly adapt to new information. In this…

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E387 · 5 Dec 2022 · 59 min
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 models. Along with that power comes a great deal of complexity in determining what neural architectures are best suited to a given task, engineering features, scaling computation, etc. Predibase is building on the successes of the Ludwig framework for declarative deep learning and Horovod for horizontally…
E386 · 28 Nov 2022 · 48 min
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 are reliable and robust. Because of the fundamental probabilistic nature of machine learning techniques it can be challenging to test and validate the generated models. The team at Deepchecks understands the widespread need to easily and repeatably check and verify the outputs of machine learning models and the…
E385 · 21 Nov 2022 · 45 min
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 that model in front of the people that you built it for. Baseten is a platform that helps you quickly generate a full stack application powered by your model. You can easily create a web interface and APIs powered by the model you created, or a pre-trained model from their library. In this episode Tuhin Srivastava, co-founder of Basten, explains…
E384 · 7 Nov 2022 · 58 min
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, and gives you a toolkit for different application types that are packed with best practices to make your life easier. In this episode Florian Wilhelm shares the story behind PyScaffold, how the templates are designed to reduce friction when getting a new project off the ground, and how you can extend it to suit your…
E383 · 30 Oct 2022 · 1 hr 4 min
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 first glance it seems simple, but can quickly become unwieldy. Bruno Rocha created Dynaconf in an effort to provide a simple interface with powerful capabilities for managing settings across environments with a set of strong opinions. In this episode he shares the story behind the project, how its design allows for adapting to various…
E382 · 23 Oct 2022 · 42 min
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 Language of Computer Hardware and Software" to make this a less opaque subject. In this episode he discusses what motivated him to revise that work in the second edition and the additional details that he packed in to explore the functioning of the CPU. Announcements Hello and welcome to Podcast.__init__, the podcast about Python and the…
E381 · 16 Oct 2022 · 49 min
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 availability and demand for electricity. FlexMeasures is an open source energy management system that is designed to integrate a variety of inputs intelligently allocate energy resources to reduce waste in your home or grid. In this episode Nicolas Höning explains how the project is implemented, how it is being used in his startup Seita, and…
E380 · 10 Oct 2022 · 1 hr 5 min
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 that team. In this episode Jigar Desai, currently the SVP of engineering at Sisu Data, shares his experience as an engineering leader over the past several years and the useful insights he has gained into how to build effective engineering teams. Announcements Hello and welcome to Podcast.__init__, the podcast about Python and the people who make it great! When you’re…
E379 · 3 Oct 2022 · 49 min
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 explains how Belay simplifies the interactions involved in developing for MicroPython boards and how you can use it to speed up your own experimentation. Announcements 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 or want to try a…
E378 · 19 Sep 2022 · 52 min
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 to an ecosystem of tools that use that type information to validate the correctness of programs and help identify potential bugs. At Instagram they created the Pyre project with a focus on speed to allow for scaling to huge Python projects. In this episode Shannon Zhu discusses how it is implemented, how to use it in your development…
E377 · 13 Sep 2022 · 50 min
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 impact on their overall success. In this episode Sean Knapp discusses the languages that his team at Ascend use for building a service that powers complex and business critical data workflows. He also explains his motivation to standardize on Python for all layers of their system to improve developer productivity. Announcements Hello and welcome to…
E376 · 5 Sep 2022 · 57 min
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 code reviews serve, as well as exploring some of the patterns and anti-patterns that grow up around a seemingly simple process. Announcements Hello and welcome to Podcast.__init__, the podcast about Python’s role in data and science. When you’re ready to launch your next app or want to try a project you hear about on the show, you’ll need…
E375 · 28 Aug 2022 · 1 hr 9 min
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 each release. In this episode Jonathon Wright discusses the role of quality assurance in modern software teams and how automation can help. Announcements Hello and welcome to Podcast.__init__, the podcast about Python’s role in data and science. When you’re ready to launch your next app or want to try a project you hear about on the…
E374 · 14 Aug 2022 · 1 hr 2 min
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 encounter when trying to build and maintain velocity in their work, the role that access to infrastructure plays in that process, and how to build automation and guardrails for everyone to take part in the delivery process. Announcements Hello and welcome to Podcast.__init__, the podcast about Python’s role…
E373 · 31 Jul 2022 · 47 min
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 solve and working with early customers as they engage with that MVP. In this episode Tony Pavlovych shares his thoughts on Python’s strengths when building and launching that MVP and some of the potential pitfalls that businesses can run into on that path. Announcements Hello and welcome to Podcast.__init__, the podcast about Python’s role in data and science.…
E372 · 25 Jul 2022 · 1 hr 11 min
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 of web assembly, Matt Butcher and his team at Fermyon are investing in tooling and services to improve the developer experience. In this episode he explains the opportunity that web assembly offers to all language communities, what they are building to power lightweight server-side…
E371 · 17 Jul 2022 · 49 min
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 time are impossible to understand without help from your tools. VizTracer is the tool that you will turn to when you need to know all of the execution paths that are being exercised and which of those paths are the most expensive. In this episode Tian Gao explains why he created VizTracer and how you can use it to gain a deeper familiarity with the code…
E370 · 10 Jul 2022 · 43 min
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 make the work harder than necessary. Bytewax is a new open source platform for writing stream processing applications in pure Python that don’t have to be translated into foreign idioms. In this episode Bytewax founder Zander Matheson explains how the system works and how to get started with it today. Announcements Hello and…
E369 · 3 Jul 2022 · 53 min
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 duplicated business logic and complex API contracts between the server-side application and the Javascript front-end. To reduce the friction involved in writing and maintaining a full application Sam Willis created Tetra, a framework built on top of Django that embeds the Javascript logic into the Python context where it is…
E368 · 27 Jun 2022 · 45 min
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 to domain experts in areas such as mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, architecture, etc. While the UI-driven workflow is more accessible, it isn’t scalable which opens the door to code-driven workflows. In this episode Jeremy Wright discusses the design, uses, and benefits of the CadQuery framework for…
E367 · 15 Jun 2022 · 32 min
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 actual issues ranging from developer ergonomics to application security. In order to provide a higher degree of confidence in the optimal combinations of direct and transitive dependencies a team at Red Hat started Project Thoth. In this episode Fridolín Pokorný explains how the Thoth resolver uses multiple signals to find the best combination of dependency…
E366 · 30 May 2022 · 1 hr
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 episode Meredydd Luff takes us behind the scenes to dig into the mechanics of code completion engines and how you can customize them to fit your particular use case. Announcements Hello and welcome to Podcast.__init__, the podcast about Python’s role in data and science. When you’re ready to launch your next app or want to try a project you hear about on the show,…
E365 · 24 May 2022 · 56 min
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 for Anaconda he is now able to dedicate his full focus to the effort. In this episode he reflects on the journey that he has taken so far, how Beeware is helping to address some of the threats to Python’s long term viability, and how he envisions its future in light of the recent release of PyScript, an in-browser runtime for…
E364 · 16 May 2022 · 45 min
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 and Google Photos are convenient, they aren’t always affordable and they put your pictures under the control of large companies with their own agendas. LibrePhotos is an open source and self-hosted alternative to these services that puts you in control of your digital memories. In this episode the maintainer of LibrePhotos, Niaz…
E363 · 10 May 2022 · 47 min
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 a powerful framework for amateur and professional investors alike Didier Rodrigues Lopes created the OpenBB Terminal. In this episode he explains how a pandemic project that started as an experiment has led to him founding a new company and dedicating his time to growing and improving the project and its community.…
E362 · 2 May 2022 · 47 min
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 be on the order of days or weeks. To reduce the time required to test different iterations Rolando Garcia Sanchez created FLOR which is a library that automatically checkpoints training epochs and instruments your code so that you can bypass early training cycles when you want to explore a different path in your algorithm. In this episode he explains how the tool…
E361 · 25 Apr 2022 · 57 min
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 concrete syntax trees of your source code. In this episode Jimmy Lai and Zsolt Dollenstein explain how it works, some of the linting and automatic code modification utilities that you can build with it and how to get started with using it to maintain your own Python projects. Announcements Hello and welcome to…
E360 · 19 Apr 2022 · 51 min
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 calls to network calls. In this episode Idit Levine explains how the Gloo platform that she and her team at Solo have created makes it easier for you to configure and monitor the network topologies for your microservice environments. She also discusses what developers need to know about networking in cloud native…
E359 · 11 Apr 2022 · 38 min
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 for your production systems. In order to reduce the friction involved in developing applications for cloud native environments Michael Schilonka created Gefyra. In this episode he explains how it connects your local machine to a running Kubernetes environment so that you can rapidly iterate on your software in the context of…

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Conversations with the people who build the Python ecosystem — framework authors, library maintainers, data scientists, infrastructure engineers and community organizers.

The Python Podcast.__init__ is a English tech & science podcast from Tobias Macey. Melo plays each episode straight from the publisher's own feed — no ads added, no account needed — and remembers where you stopped, in this browser only.

Publisher: Tobias Macey
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New episodes: Weekly
Typical length: 51 min
Latest episode: 12 Dec 2022
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