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Exploring Literate Programming For Python Projects With nbdev - Episode 300

February 2, 2021 Tobias Macey Comments Off on Exploring Literate Programming For Python Projects With nbdev - Episode 300

Creating well designed software is largely a problem of context and understanding. The majority of programming environments rely on documentation, tests, and code being logically separated despite being contextually linked. In order to weave all of these concerns together there have been many efforts to create a literate programming environment. In this episode Jeremy Howard of fast.ai fame and Hamel Husain of GitHub share the work they have done on nbdev. The explain how it allows you to weave together documentation, code, and tests in the same context so...

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Making The Sans I/O Ideal A Reality For The Websockets Library - Episode 299

January 26, 2021 Tobias Macey Comments Off on Making The Sans I/O Ideal A Reality For The Websockets Library - Episode 299

Working with network protocols is a common need for software projects, particularly in the current age of the internet. As a result, there are a multitude of libraries that provide interfaces to the various protocols. The problem is that implementing a network protocol properly and handling all of the edge cases is hard, and most of the available libraries are bound to a particular I/O paradigm which prevents them from being widely reused. To address this shortcoming there has been a movement towards "sans I/O" implementations that provide the...

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Driving Toward A Faster Python Interpreter With Pyston - Episode 298

January 19, 2021 Tobias Macey Comments Off on Driving Toward A Faster Python Interpreter With Pyston - Episode 298

One of the common complaints about Python is that it is slow. There are languages and runtimes that can execute code faster, but they are not as easy to be productive with, so many people are willing to make that tradeoff. There are some use cases, however, that truly need the benefit of faster execution. To address this problem Kevin Modzelewski helped to create the Pyston intepreter that is focused on speeding up unmodified Python code. In this episode he shares the history of the project, discusses his current...

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Project Scaffolding That Evolves With Your Software Using Copier - Episode 297

January 12, 2021 Tobias Macey Comments Off on Project Scaffolding That Evolves With Your Software Using Copier - Episode 297

Every software project has a certain amount of boilerplate to handle things like linting rules, test configuration, and packaging. Rather than recreate everything manually every time you start a new project you can use a utility to generate all of the necessary scaffolding from a template. This allows you to extract best practices and team standards into a reusable project that will save you time. The Copier project is one such utility that goes above and beyond the bare minimum by supporting project _evolution_, letting you bring in the...

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How Python's Evolution Impacts Your Fluency With Luciano Ramalho - Episode 296

January 5, 2021 Tobias Macey Comments Off on How Python's Evolution Impacts Your Fluency With Luciano Ramalho - Episode 296

On its surface Python is a simple language which is what has contributed to its rise in popularity. As you move to intermediate and advanced usage you will find a number of interesting and elegant design elements that will let you build scalable and maintainable systems and design friendly interfaces. Luciano Ramalho is best known as the author of Fluent Python which has quickly become a leading resource for Python developers to increase their facility with the language. In this episode he shares his journey with Python and his...

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Making Content Management A Smooth Experience With A Headless CMS - Episode 295

December 28, 2020 Tobias Macey Comments Off on Making Content Management A Smooth Experience With A Headless CMS - Episode 295

Building a web application requires integrating a number of separate concerns into a single experience. One of the common requirements is a content management system to allow product owners and marketers to make the changes needed for them to do their jobs. Rather than spend the time and focus of your developers to build the end to end system a growing trend is to use a headless CMS. In this episode Jake Lumetta shares why he decided to spend his time and energy on building a headless CMS as...

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Turning Notebooks Into Collaborative And Dynamic Data Applications With Hex - Episode 294

December 21, 2020 Tobias Macey Comments Off on Turning Notebooks Into Collaborative And Dynamic Data Applications With Hex - Episode 294

Notebooks have been a useful tool for analytics, exploratory programming, and shareable data science for years, and their popularity is continuing to grow. Despite their widespread use, there are still a number of challenges that inhibit collaboration and use by non-technical stakeholders. Barry McCardel and his team at Hex have built a platform to make collaboration on Jupyter notebooks a first class experience, as well as allowing notebooks to be parameterized and exposing the logic through interactive web applications. In this episode Barry shares his perspective on the state...

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Add Anomaly Detection To Your Time Series Data With Luminaire - Episode 293

December 15, 2020 Tobias Macey Comments Off on Add Anomaly Detection To Your Time Series Data With Luminaire - Episode 293

When working with data it's important to understand when it is correct. If there is a time dimension, then it can be difficult to know when variation is normal. Anomaly detection is a useful tool to address these challenges, but a difficult one to do well. In this episode Smit Shah and Sayan Chakraborty share the work they have done on Luminaire to make anomaly detection easier to work with. They explain the complexities inherent to working with time series data, the strategies that they have incorporated into Luminaire,...

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Building Big Data Pipelines For Audio With Klio - Episode 292

December 7, 2020 Tobias Macey Comments Off on Building Big Data Pipelines For Audio With Klio - Episode 292

Technologies for building data pipelines have been around for decades, with many mature options for a variety of workloads. However, most of those tools are focused on processing of text based data, both structured and unstructured. For projects that need to manage large numbers of binary and audio files the list of options is much shorter. In this episode Lynn Root shares the work that she and her team at Spotify have done on the Klio project to make that list a bit longer. She discusses the problems that...

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Open Sourcing The Anvil Full Stack Python Web App Platform - Episode 291

December 1, 2020 Tobias Macey Comments Off on Open Sourcing The Anvil Full Stack Python Web App Platform - Episode 291

Building a complete web application requires expertise in a wide range of disciplines. As a result it is often the work of a whole team of engineers to get a new project from idea to production. Meredydd Luff and his co-founder built the Anvil platform to make it possible to build full stack applications entirely in Python. In this episode he explains why they released the application server as open source, how you can use it to run your own projects for free, and why developer tooling is the...

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