#405: Testing in Radio Astronomy with Python and pytest
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#405: Testing in Radio Astronomy with Python and pytest

So you know about dependencies and testing, right? If you're talking to a DB in your app, you have to decide how to approach that with your tests. There are lots of solid options you might pick and they vary by goals. Do you mock out the DB layer for isolation or do you use a test DB to make it as real as possible? Do you just punt and use the real DB for expediency? What if your dependency was a huge array of radio telescopes and a rack of hundreds of bespoke servers? That's the challenge on deck today were we discuss testing radio astronomy with pytest with our guest James Smith. He's a Digital Signal Processing engineer at the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory and has some great stories and tips to share.

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#535: PyView: Real-time Python Web Apps

#535: PyView: Real-time Python Web Apps

Building on the web is like working with the perfect clay. It’s malleable and can become almost anything. But too often, frameworks try to hide the web’s best parts away from us. Today, we’re looking ...

23 Tammi 1h 7min

#534: diskcache: Your secret Python perf weapon

#534: diskcache: Your secret Python perf weapon

Your cloud SSD is sitting there, bored, and it would like a job. Today we’re putting it to work with DiskCache, a simple, practical cache built on SQLite that can speed things up without spinning up R...

13 Tammi 1h 14min

#533: Web Frameworks in Prod by Their Creators

#533: Web Frameworks in Prod by Their Creators

Today on Talk Python, the creators behind FastAPI, Flask, Django, Quart, and Litestar get practical about running apps based on their framework in production. Deployment patterns, async gotchas, serve...

5 Tammi 1h 1min

#532: 2025 Python Year in Review

#532: 2025 Python Year in Review

Python in 2025 is in a delightfully refreshing place: the GIL's days are numbered, packaging is getting sharper tools, and the type checkers are multiplying like gremlins snacking after midnight. On t...

29 Joulu 20251h 18min

#531: Talk Python in Production

#531: Talk Python in Production

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 current cloud service is over-architected and...

18 Joulu 20251h 21min

#530: anywidget: Jupyter Widgets made easy

#530: anywidget: Jupyter Widgets made easy

For years, building interactive widgets in Python notebooks meant wrestling with toolchains, platform quirks, and a mountain of JavaScript machinery. Most developers took one look and backed away slow...

13 Joulu 20251h 11min

#529: Computer Science from Scratch

#529: Computer Science from Scratch

A lot of people building software today never took the traditional CS path. They arrived through curiosity, a job that needed automating, or a late-night itch to make something work. This week, David ...

3 Joulu 20251h 17min

#528: Python apps with LLM building blocks

#528: Python apps with LLM building blocks

In this episode, I’m talking with Vincent Warmerdam about treating LLMs as just another API in your Python app, with clear boundaries, small focused endpoints, and good monitoring. We’ll dig into patt...

30 Marras 20251h 16min