#221: Empowering developers by embedding Python
How do we get kids excited about programming? Make programming tangible with embedded devices. Did you know that after kids learned to code with the BBC micro:bit, 90% of kids "thought coding was for everyone" and 86% said it made CS topics more interesting?
18 Juli 20191h 7min
#220: Machine Learning in the cloud with Azure ML
On this episode, you'll meet Francesca Lazzeri and hear story how she went from Research Fellow in Economics at Harvard Business School to working on the AI and data science stack on the Azure team.
12 Juli 201954min
#219: Take a Python tour of duty at the United States Digital Service
In the US, we have a very interesting civil option that is quite new: The United States Digital Service. This service was created by President Obama to fix broken government software systems such as the rocky start of the healthcare system.
5 Juli 20191h 1min
#218: Serverless Python functions in Azure
Do you have stateless code that needs to run in the cloud? The clear answer years ago was to create and HTTP, or even, gasp! A SOAP service before then. While HTTP services are still very important, some of this code can move entirely away from the framework that runs it with serverless programming and hosted functions.
25 Juni 201947min
#217: Notebooks vs data science-enabled scripts
On this episode, I meet up with Rong Lu and Katherine Kampf from Microsoft while I was at BUILD this year. We cover a bunch of topics around data science and talk about two opposing styles of data science development and related tooling: Notebooks vs Python code files and editors.
21 Juni 201954min
#216: Digging into Visual Studio Code
One of the questions I often ask at the end of the show is "When you write some Python code, what editor do you use?" Increasingly the most common answer is Visual Studio Code. Despite it's Windows only namesake, Visual Studio Code is cross-platform and has been gaining a lot of traction.
14 Juni 201953min
#215: The software powering Talk Python courses and podcast
Have you ever wondered about the software stack powering Talk Python, the training website, mobile apps, video and audio delivery, and more? While at first glance it might seem pretty simple, there's quite a bit going on. We have our own custom search engines. We deliver 15-20 TB of data per month. Our course video streams from 8 locations throughout the world. Our database server is sending about 12 MBit of traffic / sec with no media in the mix. And it's all powered with Python.
6 Juni 20191h 7min
#214: Dive into CPython 3.8 and beyond
Python 3.8 is coming soon. It's scheduled for release at the end of October 2019 and you can already download test versions today. Given that Python ships on an 18-month cycle, it's time to talk about what's coming for us Python developers in the fall.
31 Maj 20191h
