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Learning to program can be a frustrating process, because even the simplest code relies on a complex stack of other moving pieces to …

Being able to control a computer with your voice has rapidly moved from science fiction to science fact. Unfortunately, the majority of …

The U.S. government has a vast quantity of software projects across the various agencies, and many of them would benefit from a modern …

Most programming is deterministic, relying on concrete logic to determine the way that it operates. However, there are problems that require a way to work with uncertainty. PyMC3 is a library designed for …

Managing an event is rife with inherent complexity that scales as you move from scheduling a meeting to organizing a conference. Indico is a …

The CPython interpreter has been the primary implementation of the Python runtime for over 20 years. In that time other options have been made available for different use cases. The most recent entry to that …

Version control has become table stakes for any software team, but for machine learning projects there has been no good answer for tracking …

Ecommerce is an industry that has largely faded into the background due to its ubiquity in recent years. Despite that, there are new trends emerging and room for innovation, which is what the team at Mirumee …

Naomi Ceder was fortunate enough to learn Python from Guido himself. Since then she has contributed books, code, and mentorship to the community. Currently she serves as the chair of the board to the Python …

Python has become one of the dominant languages for data science and data analysis. Wes McKinney has been working for a decade to make tools …

The current buzz in data science and big data is around the promise of deep learning, especially when working with unstructured data. One of …

The Redis database recently celebrated its 10th birthday. In that time it has earned a well-earned reputation for speed, reliability, and ease of use. Python developers are fortunate to have a well-built client …

Any time that your program needs to interact with other systems it will have to deal with serializing and deserializing data. To prevent duplicate code and provide validation of the data structures that your …

Chaos engineering is the practice of injecting failures into your production systems in a controlled manner to identify weaknesses in your …

Music is a part of every culture around the world and throughout history. Musicology is the study of that music from a structural and …

Software development is a career that attracts people from all backgrounds, and Python in particular helps to make it an approachable …

As a developer and user of open source code, you interact with software and digital media every day. What is often overlooked are the rights and responsibilities conveyed by the intellectual property that is …

As we build software projects, complexity and technical debt are bound to creep into our code. To counteract these tendencies it is …

Computers have found their way into virtually every area of human endeavor, and archaeology is no exception. To aid his students in their …

Every day there are satellites collecting sensor readings and imagery of our Earth. To help make sense of that information, developers at the …

The web has spawned numerous methods for communicating between applications, including protocols such as SOAP, XML-RPC, and REST. One of the …

Real-time communication over the internet is an amazing feat of modern engineering. The protocol that powers a majority of video calling …

Using computers to analyze text can produce useful and inspirational insights. However, when working with multiple languages the capabilities …

Do you know what your servers are doing? If you have a metrics system in place then the answer should be “yes”. One critical aspect of that …

Keeping up with the work being done in the Python community can be a full time job, which is why Dan Bader has made it his! In this episode …

Digital books are convenient and useful ways to have easy access to large volumes of information. Unfortunately, keeping track of them all …

Investigative reporters have a challenging task of identifying complex networks of people, places, and events gleaned from a mixed collection …

The Python Community is large and growing, however a majority of articles, books, and presentations are still in English. To increase the accessibility for Spanish language speakers, Maricela Sanchez helped to …

As data science becomes more widespread and has a bigger impact on the lives of people, it is important that those projects and products are built with a conscious consideration of ethics. Keeping ethical …

The breadth of use cases that Python supports, coupled with the level of productivity that it provides through its ease of use have …

Many people learn to program because of their interest in building their own video games. Once the necessary skills have been acquired, it is often the case that the original idea of creating a game is forgotten …

Any application that communicates with other systems or services will at some point require a credential or sensitive piece of information to operate properly. The question then becomes how best to securely …

Once upon a time the web was a simple place with one main protocol and a predictable sequence of request/response interactions with backend …

There are many aspects of learning how to program and at least as many ways to go about it. This is multiplicative with the different problem …

Maintaining the health and well-being of your software is a never-ending responsibility. Automating away as much of it as possible makes that challenge more achievable. In this episode Anthony Sottile describes …

How secure are your servers? The best way to be sure that your systems aren’t being compromised is to do it yourself. In this episode Daniel …

The need to process unbounded and continually streaming sources of data has become increasingly common. One of the popular platforms for …

Writing a book is hard work, especially when you are trying to teach such a broad concept as programming. In this episode Ana Bell discusses her recent work in writing Get Programming: Learn To Code With Python, …

Masonite is an ambitious new web framework that draws inspiration from many other successful projects in other languages. In this episode Joe …

There are a number of resources available for teaching beginners to code in Python and many other languages, and numerous endeavors to introduce programming to educational environments. Sometimes those efforts …

Continuous integration systems are important for ensuring that you don’t release broken software. Some projects can benefit from simple, standardized platforms, but as you grow or factor in additional projects …

Michael Foord has been working on building and testing software in Python for over a decade. One of his most notable and widely used contributions to the community is the Mock library, which has been …

Twisted is one of the earliest frameworks for developing asynchronous applications in Python and it has yet to fulfill its original purpose. …

Mike Driscoll has been writing blogs and books for the Python community for years, including his popular series on the Python Module Of The …

Hosting your own artifact repositories can have a huge impact on the reliability of your production systems. It reduces your reliance on the availability of external services during deployments and ensures that …

The future is here, it’s just not evenly distributed. One of the places where this is especially true is in sub-Saharan Africa which is a vast region with little to no reliable internet connectivity. To help …

Machine learning models are often inscrutable and it can be difficult to know whether you are making progress. To improve feedback and speed …

The command line is a powerful and resilient interface for getting work done, but the user experience is often lacking. This can be …

Pandas is a swiss army knife for data processing in Python but it has long been difficult to customize. In the latest release there is now an …

Software development is a skill that can create value and reduce drudgery in a wide variety of contexts. Sometimes the causes that are most in need of software expertise are also the least able to pay for it. By …

One of the challenges of machine learning is obtaining large enough volumes of well labelled data. An approach to mitigate the effort …

Testing is a critical activity in all software projects, but one that is often neglected in data pipelines. The complexities introduced by …

We take it for granted every day, but creating and displaying vivid colors in our digital media is a complicated and often difficult process. …

Many developers enter the market from backgrounds that don’t involve a computer science degree, which can lead to blind spots of how to …

With libraries such as Tensorflow, PyTorch, scikit-learn, and MXNet being released it is easier than ever to start a deep learning project. …

One of the biggest issues facing us is the availability of sustainable energy sources. As individuals and energy consumers it is often …

Email is one of the oldest methods of communication that is still in use on the internet today. Despite many attempts at building a …

Most applications require data to operate on in order to function, but sometimes that data is hard to come by, so why not just make it up? Mimesis is a library for randomly generating data of different types, …

Making computers identify and understand what they are looking at in digital images is an ongoing challenge. Recent years have seen notable increases in the accuracy and speed of object detection due to deep …

Learning to program is a rewarding pursuit, but is often challenging. One of the roadblocks on the way to proficiency is getting a development environment installed and configured. In order to simplify that …

Maintaining a consistent taxonomy for your music library is a challenging and time consuming endeavor. Eventually you end up with a mess of …

Determining the best way to manage the capacity and flow of goods through a system is a complicated issue and can be exceedingly expensive to get wrong. Rather than experimenting with the physical objects to …

Every piece of software that has been around long enough ends up with some piece of it that needs to be redesigned and refactored. Often the code that needs to be updated is part of the critical path through the …

Whether it is intentional or accidental, every piece of software has an existing architecture. In this episode Neal Ford discusses the role …

Learning to code is one of the most effective ways to be successful in the modern economy. To that end, Marlene Mhangami and Ronald …

Using a rendering library can be a difficult task due to dependency issues and complicated APIs. Rohit Pandey wrote PyRay to address these …

One of the draws of Python is how dynamic and flexible the language can be. Sometimes, that flexibility can be problematic if the format of variables at various parts of your program is unclear or the …

Learning how to read is one of the most important steps in empowering someone to build a successful future. In developing nations, access to …

Your backups are running every day, right? Are you sure? What about that daily report job? We all have scripts that need to be run on a periodic basis and it is easy to forget about them, assuming that they are …

A majority of the work that we do as programmers involves data manipulation in some manner. This can range from large scale collection, …

Data mining and visualization are important skills to have in the modern era, regardless of your job responsibilities. In order to make it …

A majority of projects will eventually need some way of managing periodic or long-running tasks outside of the context of the main …

Jake Vanderplas is an astronomer by training and a prolific contributor to the Python data science ecosystem. His current role is using …

Kenneth Reitz has contributed many things to the Python community, including projects such as Requests, Pipenv, and Maya. He also started the community written Hitchhiker’s Guide to Python, and serves on the …

As we rely more on small, distributed processes for building our applications, being able to take advantage of asynchronous I/O is …

The importance of testing your software is widely talked about and well understood. What is not as often discussed is the different types of testing, and how end-to-end tests can benefit your team to ensure …

Do you know what is happening in your production systems right now? If you have a comprehensive metrics platform then the answer is yes. If your answer is no, then this episode is for you. Jason Dixon and Dan …

A relevant and timely recommendation can be a pleasant surprise that will delight your users. Unfortunately it can be difficult to build a …

With the proliferation of messaging applications, there has been a growing demand for bots that can understand our wishes and perform our …

Understanding what is happening in a software system can be difficult, especially when you have inconsistent log messages. Itamar …

Do you wish that you had a self-driving car of your own? With Donkey you can make that dream a reality. This week Will Roscoe shares the …

The way that your application handles data and the way that it is represented in your database don’t always match, leading to a lot of brittle abstractions to reconcile the two. In order to reduce that friction, …

Wouldn’t it be nice to have a personal assistant to answer your questions, help you remember important tasks, and control your environment? …

Email has long been the most commonly used means of communication on the internet. This week Antoine Nguyen talks about his work on the Modoboa project to make hosting your own mail server easier to manage. He …

The future of computation and our understanding of the world around us is driven by the quantum world. This week Paul Nation explains how the …

Do you like Legos, robots, and Python? This week I am joined by David Lechner and Denis Demidov to talk about the ev3dev project and how you …

Server administration is a complex endeavor, but there are some tools that can make life easier. If you are running your workload in a cloud …

Advances in the techniques used for genome sequencing are providing us with more information to unlock the secrets of biology. But how does …

Server administration is an activity that often happens in an isolated context in a terminal. ChatOps is a way of bringing that work into a …

As developers we spend a lot of our work day in a terminal window, using shells that were designed 30 years ago. This week Liam Schumm joins me to explain why he decided to write a new, more ergonomic shell …

Analyzing and interpreting data is a large portion of the work involved in scientific research. Getting to that point can be a lot of work on …

We write tests to make sure that our code is correct, but how do you make sure the tests are correct? This week Ned Batchelder explains how coverage.py fills that need, how he became the maintainer, and how it …

For any program that is used by more than one person you need a way to control identity and permissions. There are myriad solutions to that …

There are dozens of decisions that need to be made when building an application. Sometimes this can lead to analysis paralysis and prevent you from making progress, so don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the …

In modern work environments the email is being edged out by group chat as the preferred method of communication. The majority of the platforms used are commercial and closed source, but there is one project that …

Routers and switches are the stitches in the invisible fabric of the internet which we all rely on. Managing that hardware has traditionally been a very manual process, but the NAPALM (Network Automation and …

The venerable ‘if’ statement is a cornerstone of program flow and busines logic, but sometimes it can grow unwieldy and lead to …

Access to affordable and consistent electricity is one of the big challenges facing our modern society. Nuclear energy is one answer because of its reliable output and carbon-free operation. To make this energy …

We all use items that are produced in factories, but do you ever stop to think about the code that powers that production? This week Jonas Neubert takes us behind the scenes and talks about the systems and …

When you’re writing python code and your editor offers some suggestions, where does that suggestion come from? The most likely answer is Jedi! This week David Halter explains the history of how the Jedi auto …