Talk Python To Me

The tables have turned and this time I'm the guest and you all are the hosts. I get a ton of questions over email and twitter asking me about my thoughts on various trends, tools, and behind the scenes questions around Talk Python. So I've enlisted two listeners who are up for hosting a conversation and taking questions from you all.

2 Apr 20211h 2min

Machine learning and data science are full of best practices and important workflows. Can we extrapolate these to our broader lives? Eugene Yan and I give it a shot on this slightly more philosophical episode of Talk Python To Me.

26 Mar 202155min

Docker is one of the core elements of developing Python applications in consistent ways as well as running them across different hardware universally. On this episode, you'll meet Peter McKee from Docker. He's here to catch us up on what's happening in the Docker universe for Python developers.

20 Mar 20211h 8min

Python has changed a lot since its inception 30 years ago. On this episode, you'll meet Paul Everitt and Barry Warsaw. They have both been involved with Python since the very first Python conference (called SPAM1 even). We discuss how it's changed but also how so many of the pressures and ideas from the very early days are still playing out in 2021. I'm sure you'll enjoy all the stories and reminiscing.

11 Mar 20211h 11min

When we talk about scaling software threading and async get all the buzz. And while they are powerful, using asynchronous queues can often be much more effective. You might think this means creating a Celery server, maybe running RabbitMQ or Redis as well. What if you wanted this async ability and many more message exchange patterns like pub/sub. But you wanted to do zero of that server work? Then you should check out ZeroMQ.

5 Mar 20211h 5min

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 communities in Python Discord. It's Python, on a discord server. But it's more than that too.

1 Mar 20211h 1min

The relatively recent introduction of async and await as keywords in Python have spawned a whole area of high performance, highly scalable frameworks and supporting libraries. One such library that has great async building blocks is Omnilib.

21 Feb 20211h

If you are involved in science or use computational tools in your work, you should be using code to solve your problem. On this episode, we have Dr. Becky Smethurst who's an astrophysicist at Oxford University. She uses Python to explore galaxies and black holes.

12 Feb 20211h 3min