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Scale Your Data Science Teams With Machine Learning Operations Principles - Episode 289

November 17, 2020 Tobias Macey Comments Off on Scale Your Data Science Teams With Machine Learning Operations Principles - Episode 289

Building a machine learning model is a process that requires well curated and cleaned data and a lot of experimentation. Doing it repeatably and at scale with a team requires a way to share your discoveries with your teammates. This has led to a new set of operational ML platforms. In this episode Michael Del Balso shares the lessons that he learned from building the platform at Uber for putting machine learning into production. He also explains how the feature store is becoming the core abstraction for data teams...

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Making The Case For A (Semi) Formal Specification Of CPython - Episode 288

November 10, 2020 Tobias Macey Comments Off on Making The Case For A (Semi) Formal Specification Of CPython - Episode 288

The CPython implementation has grown and evolved significantly over the past ~25 years. In that time there have been many other projects to create compatible runtimes for your Python code. One of the challenges for these other projects is the lack of a fully documented specification of how and why everything works the way that it does. In the most recent Python language summit Mark Shannon proposed implementing a formal specification for CPython, and in this episode he shares his reasoning for why that would be helpful and what...

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Bringing Artificial Intelligence Projects From Idea To Production - Episode 287

November 3, 2020 Tobias Macey Comments Off on Bringing Artificial Intelligence Projects From Idea To Production - Episode 287

Artificial intelligence applications can provide dramatic benefits to a business, but only if you can bring them from idea to production. Henrik Landgren was behind the original efforts at Spotify to leverage data for new product features, and in his current role he works on an AI system to evaluate new businesses to invest in. In this episode he shares advice on how to identify opportunities for leveraging AI to improve your business, the capabilities necessary to enable aa successful project, and some of the pitfalls to watch out...

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Power Up Your Java Using Python With JPype - Episode 286

October 26, 2020 Tobias Macey Comments Off on Power Up Your Java Using Python With JPype - Episode 286

Python and Java are two of the most popular programming languages in the world, and have both been around for over 20 years. In that time there have been numerous attempts to provide interoperability between them, with varying methods and levels of success. One such project is JPype, which allows you to use Java classes in your Python code. In this episode the current lead developer, Karl Nelson, explains why he chose it as his preferred tool for combining these ecosystems, how he and his team are using it,...

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The Journey To Replace Python's Parser And What It Means For The Future - Episode 285

October 19, 2020 Tobias Macey Comments Off on The Journey To Replace Python's Parser And What It Means For The Future - Episode 285

The release of Python 3.9 introduced a new parser that paves the way for brand new features. Every programming language has its own specific syntax for representing the logic that you are trying to express. The way that the rules of the language are defined and validated is with a grammar definition, which in turn is processed by a parser. The parser that the Python language has relied on for the past 25 years has begun to show its age through mounting technical debt and a lack of flexibility...

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Cloud Native Application Delivery Using GitOps - Episode 284

October 12, 2020 Tobias Macey Comments Off on Cloud Native Application Delivery Using GitOps - Episode 284

The way that applications are being built and delivered has changed dramatically in recent years with the growing trend toward cloud native software. As part of this movement toward the infrastructure and orchestration that powers your project being defined in software, a new approach to operations is gaining prominence. Commonly called GitOps, the main principle is that all of your automation code lives in version control and is executed automatically as changes are merged. In this episode Victor Farcic shares details on how that workflow brings together developers and...

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Threading The Needle Of Interesting And Informative While You Learn To Code - Episode 283

October 6, 2020 Tobias Macey Comments Off on Threading The Needle Of Interesting And Informative While You Learn To Code - Episode 283

Learning to code is a neverending journey, which is why it's important to find a way to stay motivated. A common refrain is to just find a project that you're interested in building and use that goal to keep you on track. The problem with that advice is that as a new programmer, you don't have the knowledge required to know which projects are reasonable, which are difficult, and which are effectively impossible. Steven Lott has been sharing his programming expertise as a consultant, author, and trainer for years....

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Solving Python Package Creation For End User Applications With PyOxidizer - Episode 282

September 29, 2020 Tobias Macey Comments Off on Solving Python Package Creation For End User Applications With PyOxidizer - Episode 282

Python is a powerful and expressive programming language with a vast ecosystem of incredible applications. Unfortunately, it has always been challenging to share those applications with non-technical end users. Gregory Szorc set out to solve the problem of how to put your code on someone else's computer and have it run without having to rely on extra systems such as virtualenvs or Docker. In this episode he shares his work on PyOxidizer and how it allows you to build a self-contained Python runtime along with statically linked dependencies and...

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Flexible Network Security Detection And Response With Grapl - Episode 281

September 22, 2020 Tobias Macey Comments Off on Flexible Network Security Detection And Response With Grapl - Episode 281

Servers and services that have any exposure to the public internet are under a constant barrage of attacks. Network security engineers are tasked with discovering and addressing any potential breaches to their systems, which is a never-ending task as attackers continually evolve their tactics. In order to gain better visibility into complex exploits Colin O'Brien built the Grapl platform, using graph database technology to more easily discover relationships between activities within and across servers. In this episode he shares his motivations for creating a new system to discover potential...

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Simplified Data Extraction And Analysis For Current Events With Newspaper - Episode 280

September 15, 2020 Tobias Macey Comments Off on Simplified Data Extraction And Analysis For Current Events With Newspaper - Episode 280

News media is an important source of information for understanding the context of the world. To make it easier to access and process the contents of news sites Lucas Ou-Yang built the Newspaper library that aids in automatic retrieval of articles and prepare it for analysis. In this episode he shares how the project got started, how it is implemented, and how you can get started with it today. He also discusses how recent improvements in the utility and ease of use of deep learning libraries open new possibilities...

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