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The great power of Python is its over 400,000 packages on PyPI to serve as building blocks for your app. How do you get those needed packages on to your dev...

When you think about embedded programming, does it bring low-level languages and tools to mind? Maybe Embedded C or even Assembly language? Thanks to the...

If you want to leverage the power of LLMs in your Python apps, you would be wise to consider an agentic framework. Agentic empowers the LLMs to use tools and...

Why do people listen to this podcast? Sure, they're looking for technical explorations of new libraries and ideas. But often it's to hear the story behind...

Today we explore the wild world of Python deployment with my friend, Calvin Hendryx-Parker from Six Feet Up. We’ll tackle some of the biggest challenges in...

When you think data exploration using Python, Jupyter notebooks likely come to mind. They are excellent for those of us who gravitate towards Python. But what...

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Did you know I'm a fan of GUIs. You know, they are kind of like web pages, but they run on your computer, they have their own windows, and you can even use...

What if your code was crash-proof? That's the value prop for a framework called Temporal. Temporal is a durable execution platform that enables developers to...

Do you have a large or growing Python code base? If you struggle to run builds, tests, linting, and other quality checks regularly or quickly, you'll want to...

Getting started in Python is pretty easy. There's even a t-shirt that jokes about it: I learned Python, it was a good weekend. But to go from know how to...

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You know that feeling when one of your developer friends or colleague tells you about some amazing tool, library, or shell environment that you never heard of...

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Here's a question: What's the most common way to explore data? Would you say pandas and matplotlib? Maybe you went more general and said Jupyter notebooks. How...

If you're a fan of Pydantic or dataclasses, you'll definitely be interested in this episode. We are talking about a super fast data modeling and validation...

Imagine a world with free and unlimited clean energy. That's the musings of a great science fiction story. But nuclear fusion (the kind that powers the sun)...

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We all know about Flask and Django. And of course FastAPI made a huge splash when it came on the scene a few years ago. But new web frameworks are being...

In this episode, I'm joined by JJ Allaire, founder and executive chairman at Posit, and Carlos Scheidegger, a software engineer at Posit, to explore Quarto, an...

When you think of government software development and projects, do you fast apps and modern tech stacks jump to mind? Probably not. So you'll be delighted to...

Today on Talk Python: What really happens when your data work outgrows your laptop. Matthew Rocklin, creator of Dask and cofounder of Coiled, and Nat Tabris a...

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A talk on Global Interpreter Lock in Python. Contribute to aktech/gil_talk development by creating an account on GitHub.

Articles about technology and software development by Michael Kennedy

If you work in data science, you definitely know about data frame libraries. Pandas is certainly the most popular, but there are others such as cuDF, Modin,...

I'm always on the look out for a good Python UI framework. This episode focuses on Dear PyGui. Dear PyGui: A fast and powerful Graphical User Interface Toolkit...

I talked about Debugging Python in this year’s PyCon Finland and today the recording was published in Youtube

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You may have heard of the Bloomberg terminal. It's expensive software that can monitor and analyze real-time financial market data and place trades on the...

The world of AI is changing fast. And the AI / ML space is a bit out of the ordinary for software developers. Typically in software, we can prove that given a...

Agentic AI programming is what happens when coding assistants stop acting like autocomplete and start collaborating on real work. In this episode, we cut...

What if we distributed CPython, the runtime, in the same way we distributed Python packages - as prebuilt binary wheels that only need to be downloaded and...

When you think about the power of Python, the clean language or powerful standard library may come to mind. You might certainly point to the external packages...

Want to learn how to build an Iron-man like arc reactor accessory or maybe a solar charging backpack? What if you could program these devices with Python?...

Are you building a mobile app and wondering where Python fits in the mix? Are you support others building these apps with backend APIs written in Python? Can...

What database are you using in your apps these days? If you like most Python people, it's probably PostgreSQL. If you roll with NoSQL like me, you're probably...

Are you considering or struggling with replacing much of the interactivity of your Django app with frontend JavaScript frameworks? After all, your users do...

PyPI has been in the news for a bunch of reasons lately. Many of them good. But also, some with a bit of drama or mixed reactions. On this episode, we have...

We're sitting down with Eric Matthes, the educator, author, and developer behind Django Simple Deploy. If you've ever struggled with taking that final step of...

For all the amazing powers of Python, deploying packaged apps that leverage native OS-level capabilities isn't one of them. But it can be done and we have a...

A couple years ago, Charlie Marsh lit a fire under Python tooling with Ruff and then uv. Today he’s back with something on the other side of that coin: pyx....

Have you ever thought about getting your small product into production, but are worried about the cost of the big cloud providers? Or maybe you think your...

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Flask is one of the most popular Python web frameworks. And they have huge news to share with us. Flask 2.0 just released after a ton of work. And it's as big...

Have you heard of the package Rich? This library allows you to create very, well, rich terminal-based UIs in Python. When you think of what you can typically...

People often ask me how they can find a Python community to be part of. Maybe discussion forum or slack channel. This week, we look at one of the most active...

We're all familiar with the data science tools like numpy, pandas, and others. These are numerical tools working with floating point numbers, often to...

Data validation and conversion is one of the truly tricky part of getting external data into your app. This might come from a REST API, a file on disk, or...

If you maintain projects on places like GitHub, you know that having a classy readme is important and that maintaining a change log can be helpful for you and...

In this episode, we welcome back Will McGugan, the creator of the wildly popular Rich library and founder of Textualize. We'll dive into Will's latest article...

If you want to get better at something, often times the path is pretty clear. If you get better at swimming, you go to the pool and practice your strokes and...

Do you struggle to know where to start in the wide range of Python's visualization frameworks? Not sure when to use Plotly vs. Matplotlib vs. Altair? Then this...

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Do you feel like ADHD is holding you back? Maybe you don't personally have ADHD but you work with folks who do and you'd like to support them better. Either...

If you are a .NET developer or work in a place that has some of those folks, wouldn't it be great to fully leverage the entirety of PyPI with it's almost...

Python is undergoing a performance renaissance. We already have Python 3.11 20-40% faster than even Python 3.10. On this episode, we'll dive into a new...

Python is used to solve a large and varied set of problems. One of its core pillars is web APIs. Another one is ML and data science. Those two important pieces...

Are you interested in getting ahead in data science? On this episode, you'll meet Sanyam Bhutani who studied computer science but found his education didn't...

If you're looking for fun data sets for learning, for teaching, maybe a conference talk, or even if you're just really into them, sports offers up a continuous...

Join me for an insightful conversation with Alex Monahan, who works on documentation, tutorials, and training at DuckDB Labs. We explore why DuckDB is...

Do you know what custom GPTs are? They're configurable and shareable chat experiences with a name, logo, custom instructions, conversation starters, access to...

When you think of Netflix (as a technology company), you probably imagine them as cloud innovators. They were one of the first companies to go all-in on a...

Run Python apps in production with Docker, NGINX & stack-native simplicity. Talk Python in Production shows you how to cut costs and stay in control, no cloud...

How do you build Python applications that can handling literally billions of requests. I has certainly been done to great success with places like YouTube...

You're about to launch your new app or API, or even just a big refactor of your current project. Will it stand up and deliver when you put it into production...

Every year, the PSF and JetBrains team up to do a Python community survey. The most recent one was Fall of 2021. For this episode, I've gathered a great group...

Telescopes have been fundamental in our understanding of our place in the universe. And when you think about images that have shaped our modern view of space,...

The team at Instagram dropped a performance bomb on the Python world when they open-sourced Cider, their performance oriented fork of CPython. It contains a...

The release of Pydantic 2.0, its partial rewrite in Rust, and its refactoring into Pydantic core and top-level Pydantic in Python is big news. In fact, the...

Jupyter Notebooks and Jupyter Lab have to be one of the most important parts of Python when it comes to bring new users to the Python ecosystem and certainly...

So you've created a Python-based open source project and it's started to take off. You're getting contributors, lots of buzz in the podcast space, and more....

Does it seem like your Python projects are getting bigger and bigger? Are you feeling the pain as your codebase expands and gets tougher to debug and maintain?...

Do you use Python in an academic setting? Maybe you run a research lab or teach courses using Python. Maybe you're even a student using Python. Whichever it...

So, you've got this amazing machine learning model you created. And you want to share it and let your colleagues and users experiment with it on the web. How...

For years, building interactive widgets in Python notebooks meant wrestling with toolchains, platform quirks, and a mountain of JavaScript machinery. Most...

There hasn't been a boom like the AI boom since the .com days. And it may look like a space destined to be controlled by a couple of tech giants. But Ines...

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We're back with another GeekOut episode. Richard Campbell, a developer and podcaster who also dives deep into science and tech topics, is back for our third...

<span>This episode turned out to be a seminal one for me. After speaking with David about the Flask ecosystem, it finally convinced me to get moving and...

On this episode we have Wolf Vollprecht and Ruben Arts from the pixi project here to talk about pixi, a high performance package manager for Python and other...

There has been a lot of changes in the low-level Python space these days. The biggest has to be how many projects have rewritten core performance-intensive...

If you are working with data pipelines, you definitely need to give Apache Airflow a look. This pure-Python workflow framework is one of the most popular and...

Have you heard of Django? It's this little web framework that, well, kicked off much of Python's significance in the web space back in 2005. And that makes...

Today we’re turning tiny tips into big wins. Khuyen Tran, creator of CodeCut.ai, has shipped hundreds of bite-size Python and data science snippets across...

How do you test whether your web sites are working well? Unit tests are great. But for web apps, the number of pieces that have to click together 'just so' are...

I'm sure you're familiar with data science. But what about data engineering? Are these the same or how are they related?

Twenty years after a scrappy newsroom team hacked together a framework to ship stories fast, Django remains the Python web framework that ships real apps,...

Special crossover episode of Python Bytes to wrap up 2023. Topics include: <ol> <ul><strong>Michael #1</strong>: <a...

This podcast episode you're listening to right now was delivered to you, in part, by MongoDB and Python powering our web apps and production processes. But if...

After nearly a decade with Digital Ocean, we’ve moved our infrastructure to Hetzner’s new US-based data center. We'll save almost $1,500/yr for better...

Articles about technology and software development by Michael Kennedy

One of the most exciting initiatives in the Python space these days is pyscript which enables Python running natively in your browser. With consistent support...

When you think data science, Jupyter notebooks and associated tools probably come to mind. But I want to broaden your toolset a bit and encourage you to look...

Do you worry about your developer / data science supply chain safety? All the packages for the Python ecosystem are much of what makes Python awesome. But the...