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    Scaling Deep Learning Using Polyaxon with Mourad Mourafiq Apr 23, 2018
    Show notes

    Summary

    With libraries such as Tensorflow, PyTorch, scikit-learn, and MXNet being released it is easier than ever to start a deep learning project. Unfortunately, it is still difficult to manage scaling and reproduction of training for these projects. Mourad Mourafiq built Polyaxon on top of Kubernetes to address this shortcoming. In this episode he shares his reasons for starting the project, how it works, and how you can start using it today.

    Preface

    • Hello and welcome to Podcast.__init__, the podcast about Python and the people who make it great.
    • When you’re ready to launch your next app you’ll need somewhere to deploy it, so check out Linode. With private networking, shared block storage, node balancers, and a 200Gbit network, all controlled by a brand new API you’ve got everything you need to scale up. Go to podcastinit.com/linode to get a $20 credit and launch a new server in under a minute.
    • Finding a bug in production is never a fun experience, especially when your users find it first. Airbrake error monitoring ensures that you will always be the first to know so you can deploy a fix before anyone is impacted. With open source agents for Python 2 and 3 it’s easy to get started, and the automatic aggregations, contextual information, and deployment tracking ensure that you don’t waste time pinpointing what went wrong. Go to podcastinit.com/airbrake today to sign up and get your first 30 days free, and 50% off 3 months of the Startup plan.
    • To get worry-free releases download GoCD, the open source continous delivery server built by Thoughworks. You can use their pipeline modeling and value stream map to build, control and monitor every step from commit to deployment in one place. And with their new Kubernetes integration it’s even easier to deploy and scale your build agents. Go to podcastinit.com/gocd to learn more about their professional support services and enterprise add-ons.
    • Visit the site to subscribe to the show, sign up for the newsletter, and read the show notes. And if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions I would love to hear them. You can reach me on Twitter at @Podcast__init__ or email hosts@podcastinit.com)
    • Your host as usual is Tobias Macey and today I’m interviewing Mourad Mourafiq about Polyaxon, a platform for building, training and monitoring large scale deep learning applications.

    Interview

    • Introductions
    • How did you get introduced to Python?
    • Can you give a quick overview of what Polyaxon is and your motivation for creating it?
    • What is a typical workflow for building and testing a deep learning application?
    • How is Polyaxon implemented?
      • How has the internal architecture evolved since you first started working on it?
      • What is unique to deep learning workloads that makes it necessary to have a dedicated tool for deploying them?
      • What does Polyaxon add on top of the existing functionality in Kubernetes?

    • It can be difficult to build a docker container that holds all of the necessary components for a complex application. What are some tips or best practices for creating containers to be used with Polyaxon?

    • What are the relative tradeoffs of the various deep learning frameworks that you support?

    • For someone who is getting started with Polyaxon what does the workflow look like?
      • What is involved in migrating existing projects to run on Polyaxon?

    • What have been the most challenging aspects of building Polyaxon?

    • What are your plans for the future of Polyaxon?

    Keep In Touch

    • Website
    • @mmourafiq on Twitter
    • mouradmourafiq on GitHub

    Picks

    • Tobias
      • Kubernetes
      • Kubernetes Up And Running
      • Kelsey Hightower
      • Food Fight Show With Kelsey Hightower

    • Mourad
      • Schopenhauer

    Links

    • Polyaxon
    • Investment Banking
    • Luxembourg
    • Matlab
    • Text Mining
    • Tensorflow
    • Docker
    • Kubernetes
    • Deep Learning
      • Free Deep Learning Textbook

    • Machine Learning Engineer

    • Hyperparameters

    • Continuous Integration

    • PyTorch

    • MXNet

    • Scikit-Learn

    • Helm

    • Mesos

    • Spark

    • SparkML

    The intro and outro music is from Requiem for a Fish The Freak Fandango Orchestra / CC BY-SA

    Electricity Map: Real Time Visibility of Power Generation with Olivier Corradi Apr 15, 2018
    Show notes

    Summary

    One of the biggest issues facing us is the availability of sustainable energy sources. As individuals and energy consumers it is often difficult to understand how we can make informed choices about energy use to reduce our impact on the environment. Electricity Map is a project that provides up to date and historical information about the balance of how the energy we are using is being produced. In this episode Olivier Corradi discusses his motivation for creating Electricity Map, how it is built, and his goals for the project and his other work at Tomorrow Co.

    Preface

    • Hello and welcome to Podcast.__init__, the podcast about Python and the people who make it great.
    • When you’re ready to launch your next app you’ll need somewhere to deploy it, so check out Linode. With private networking, shared block storage, node balancers, and a 200Gbit network, all controlled by a brand new API you’ve got everything you need to scale up. Go to podcastinit.com/linode to get a $20 credit and launch a new server in under a minute.
    • Finding a bug in production is never a fun experience, especially when your users find it first. Airbrake error monitoring ensures that you will always be the first to know so you can deploy a fix before anyone is impacted. With open source agents for Python 2 and 3 it’s easy to get started, and the automatic aggregations, contextual information, and deployment tracking ensure that you don’t waste time pinpointing what went wrong. Go to podcastinit.com/airbrake today to sign up and get your first 30 days free, and 50% off 3 months of the Startup plan.
    • To get worry-free releases download GoCD, the open source continous delivery server built by Thoughworks. You can use their pipeline modeling and value stream map to build, control and monitor every step from commit to deployment in one place. And with their new Kubernetes integration it’s even easier to deploy and scale your build agents. Go to podcastinit.com/gocd to learn more about their professional support services and enterprise add-ons.
    • Visit the site to subscribe to the show, sign up for the newsletter, and read the show notes. And if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions I would love to hear them. You can reach me on Twitter at @Podcast__init__ or email hosts@podcastinit.com)
    • Your host as usual is Tobias Macey and today I’m interviewing Olivier Corradi about Electricity Map and using Python to analyze data of global power generation

    Interview

    • Introductions
    • How did you get introduced to Python?
    • What was your motivation for creating Electricity Map?
      • How can an average person use or benefit from the information that is available in the map?

    • What sources are you using to gather the information about how electricity is generated and distributed in various geographic regions?
      • Is there any standard format in which this data is produced?
      • What are the biggest difficulties associated with collecting and consuming this data?
      • How much confidence do you have in the accuracy of the data sources?
      • Is there any penalty for misrepresenting the fuel consumption or waste generation for a given plant?

    • Can you describe the architecture of the system and how it has evolved?

    • What are some of the most interesting uses of the data in your database and API that you are aware of?
      • How do you measure the impact or effectiveness of the information that you provide through the different interfaces to the data that you have aggregated?

    • How have you built a community around the project?
      • How has the community helped in building and growing Electricity Map?

    • What are some of the most unexpected things that you have learned in the process of building Electricity Map?

    • What are your plans for the future of Electricity Map?

    Keep In Touch

    • @corradio on Twitter
    • LinkedIn
    • corradio on GitHub

    Picks

    • Tobias
      • Rollerblading

    • Olivier
      • Deep Mind AlphaGo Documentary
      • Consumer’s Guide To Climate Change Impact

    Links

    • Electricity Map
    • Machine Learning
    • Youtube
    • Climate Change
    • Fossil Fuels
    • Carbon Intensity
    • Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies Calculations
    • Open Data
    • Electricity Map Project Source
    • Lignite
    • Marginal Carbon Intensity
    • Electricity Map Forecast API
    • IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
    • Redis
    • D3.js
    • Spark
    • Tensorflow
    • Spatiotemporal Data
    • MongoDB
    • Matrix Inversion
    • PyGRIB
    • Tomorrow Co.

    The intro and outro music is from Requiem for a Fish The Freak Fandango Orchestra / CC BY-SA

    Building And Growing Nylas with Christine Spang Apr 08, 2018
    Show notes

    Summary

    Email is one of the oldest methods of communication that is still in use on the internet today. Despite many attempts at building a replacement and predictions of its demise we are sending more email now than ever. Recognizing that the venerable inbox is still an important repository of information, Christine Spang co-founded Nylas to integrate your mail with the rest of your tools, rather than just replacing it. In this episode Christine discusses how Nylas is built, how it is being used, and how she has helped to grow a successful business with a strong focus on diversity and inclusion.

    Preface

    • Hello and welcome to Podcast.__init__, the podcast about Python and the people who make it great.
    • When you’re ready to launch your next app you’ll need somewhere to deploy it, so check out Linode. With private networking, shared block storage, node balancers, and a 200Gbit network, all controlled by a brand new API you’ve got everything you need to scale up. Go to podcastinit.com/linode to get a $20 credit and launch a new server in under a minute.
    • Finding a bug in production is never a fun experience, especially when your users find it first. Airbrake error monitoring ensures that you will always be the first to know so you can deploy a fix before anyone is impacted. With open source agents for Python 2 and 3 it’s easy to get started, and the automatic aggregations, contextual information, and deployment tracking ensure that you don’t waste time pinpointing what went wrong. Go to podcastinit.com/airbrake today to sign up and get your first 30 days free, and 50% off 3 months of the Startup plan.
    • To get worry-free releases download GoCD, the open source continous delivery server built by Thoughworks. You can use their pipeline modeling and value stream map to build, control and monitor every step from commit to deployment in one place. And with their new Kubernetes integration it’s even easier to deploy and scale your build agents. Go to podcastinit.com/gocd to learn more about their professional support services and enterprise add-ons.
    • Visit the site to subscribe to the show, sign up for the newsletter, and read the show notes. And if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions I would love to hear them. You can reach me on Twitter at @Podcast__init__ or email hosts@podcastinit.com)
    • To help other people find the show please leave a review on iTunes, or Google Play Music, tell your friends and co-workers, and share it on social media.
    • Your host as usual is Tobias Macey and today I’m interviewing Christine Spang about Nylas and the modern era of email

    Interview

    • Introductions
    • How did you get introduced to Python?
    • Can you explain what Nylas is and some of its history?
    • What do you think it is about email as a protocol and a means of communication that has made it so resilient in the face of technological evolution?
    • What lessons did you learn from your initial offering of the N1 mail client and how has that informed your current focus?
    • Nylas as a company appears to have a strong focus on diversity and inclusion. Can you speak to how you encourage that type of environment and how it manifests at work?
    • What are some of the ways that Python is used at Nylas?
    • Can you share some examples of services that you have written in other languages and why you felt that Python was not the right choice?
    • What are some of the use cases that Nylas enables?
    • What are some of the most interesting or innovative uses of the Nylas platform that you have seen?
    • How do you manage privacy and security in your sync service given the sensitivity of the data that you are handling?
    • What are some of the biggest challenges that you are currently facing at Nylas?
    • What do you think will be the future of email?

    Keep In Touch

    • LinkedIn
    • @spang on Twitter
    • Website
    • GitHub

    Picks

    • Tobias
    • Trello
    • Christine
    • Founders For Change

    Links

    • Nylas
    • MIT
    • KSplice
    • Debian
    • Lisp
    • REST
    • Email
    • N1 Mail Client
    • Mailspring
    • Nylas Employee Handbook
    • Hackbright Academy
    • Code2040
    • TextIO
    • Key Values
    • IMAP
    • OAuth
    • MySQL
    • Gevent
    • React
    • CRM (Customer Relationship Management)
    • SendGrid
    • MailGun
    • MailChimp
    • GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation)
    • SOC2
    • OWASP Top 10
    • Principle of Least Privilege

    The intro and outro music is from Requiem for a Fish The Freak Fandango Orchestra / CC BY-SA

    Synthetic Data Generation Using Mimesis with Nikita Sobolev Apr 01, 2018
    Show notes

    Summary

    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, such as names, addresses, and credit card numbers, so that you can use it for testing, anonymizing real data, or for placeholders. This week Nikita Sobolev discusses how the project got started, the challenges that it has posed, and how you can use it in your applications.

    Preface

    • Hello and welcome to Podcast.__init__, the podcast about Python and the people who make it great.
    • When you’re ready to launch your next app you’ll need somewhere to deploy it, so check out Linode. With private networking, shared block storage, node balancers, and a 40Gbit network, all controlled by a brand new API you’ve got everything you need to scale up. Go to podcastinit.com/linode to get a $20 credit and launch a new server in under a minute.
    • To get worry-free releases download GoCD, the open source continous delivery server built by Thoughworks. You can use their pipeline modeling and value stream map to build, control and monitor every step from commit to deployment in one place. Go to podcastinit.com/gocd to learn more about their professional support services and enterprise add-ons.
    • Visit the site to subscribe to the show, sign up for the newsletter, and read the show notes. And if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions I would love to hear them. You can reach me on Twitter at @Podcast__init__ or email hosts@podcastinit.com)
    • Your host as usual is Tobias Macey and today I’m interviewing Nikita Sobolev about Mimesis, a library for quickly generating synthetic data

    Interview

    • Introductions
    • How did you get introduced to Python?
    • What is mimesis and how does it compare to other projects such as faker and factory_boy?
      • What was the motivation for creating it?

    • One of the features that is advertised is the speed of Mimesis. What techniques are used to ensure that the data is generated quickly?

    • What are the built in mechanisms for generating data?
      • What options do users have for customizing the types of data that can get generated?

    • What are some of the most complicated providers to write and maintain?

    • What are some of the use cases outside of unit or integration tests where Mimesis could be beneficial?
      • How would you use Mimesis to anonymize data from a production environment to be used for testing?

    • What are the most challenging aspects of maintaining the Mimesis project?

    • What are some of the plans that you have for the future of Mimesis?

    Keep In Touch

    • sobolevn on GitHub
    • @sobolevn on Twitter
    • Email

    Picks

    • Tobias
      • Coco

    • Nikita
      • I Am A Mediocre Developer

    Links

    • Mimesis
    • Django
    • Faker
    • Factory Boy
    • Internationalization (I18N)
    • Unicode
    • Enum
    • Pipfile
    • GeoJSON
    • Mimesis Cloud
    • Sanic
    • GraphQL
    • Impostor Syndrome
    • Imposter Syndrome Disclaimer: Add this to all of your projects!
    • Jacob Kaplan-Moss PyCon Keynote

    The intro and outro music is from Requiem for a Fish The Freak Fandango Orchestra / CC BY-SA

    Luminoth: AI Powered Computer Vision for Python with Joaquin Alori Mar 25, 2018
    Show notes

    Summary

    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 and new applications of neural networks. In order to make it easier for developers to take advantage of these techniques Tryo Labs built Luminoth. In this interview Joaquín Alori explains how how Luminoth works, how it can be used in your projects, and how it compares to API oriented services for computer vision.

    Introduction

    • Hello and welcome to Podcast.__init__, the podcast about Python and the people who make it great.
    • When you’re ready to launch your next app you’ll need somewhere to deploy it, so check out Linode. With private networking, shared block storage, node balancers, and a 40Gbit network, all controlled by a brand new API you’ve got everything you need to scale up. Go to podcastinit.com/linode to get a $20 credit and launch a new server in under a minute.
    • For complete visibility into your application stack, deployment tracking, and powerful alerting, DataDog has got you covered. With their monitoring, metrics, and log collection agent, including extensive integrations and distributed tracing, you’ll have everything you need to find and fix bugs in no time. Go to podcastinit.com/datadog today to start your free 14 day trial and get a sweet new T-Shirt.
    • To get worry-free releases download GoCD, the open source continous delivery server built by Thoughworks. You can use their pipeline modeling and value stream map to build, control and monitor every step from commit to deployment in one place. Go to podcastinit.com/gocd to learn more about their professional support services and enterprise add-ons.
    • Visit the site to subscribe to the show, sign up for the newsletter, and read the show notes. And if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions I would love to hear them. You can reach me on Twitter at @Podcast__init__ or email hosts@podcastinit.com)
    • Your host as usual is Tobias Macey and today I’m interviewing Joaquín Alori about Luminoth, a deep learning toolkit for computer vision in Python

    Interview

    • Introductions
    • How did you get introduced to Python?
    • What is Luminoth and what was your motivation for creating it?
    • Computer vision has been a focus of AI research for decades. How do current approaches with deep learning compare to previous generations of tooling?
    • What are some of the most difficult problems in visual processing that still need to be solved?
    • What are the limitations of Luminoth for building a computer vision application and how do they differ from the capabilities of something built with a prior generation of tooling such as OpenCV?
    • For someone who is interested in using Luminoth in their project what is the current workflow?
    • How do the capabilities of Luminoth compare with some of the various service based options such as Rekognition for Amazon or the Cloud Vision API from Google?
      • What are some of the motivations for using Luminoth in place of these services?

    • What are some of the highest priority features that you are focusing on implementing in Luminoth?

    • When is Luminoth the wrong choice for a computer vision application and what are some of the strongest alternatives at the moment?

    Keep In Touch

    • @JoaquinAlori on Twitter
    • LinkedIn

    Picks

    • Tobias
      • PyCon US

    • Joaquin
      • 3Blue1Brown

    Links

    • Luminoth
    • Luminoth Release Announcement
    • Tryo Labs
    • Uruguay
    • Industrial Engineering
    • Manufacturing Engineering
    • Elon Musk
    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Deep Learning
    • Neural Networks
    • Object Detection
    • Image Segmentation
    • Convolutional Neural Network
    • Recurrent Neural Network
    • Back Propagation
    • Geoff Hinton
    • Capsule Networks
    • Generative Adversarial Networks
    • SVM (Support Vector Machine)
    • Haar Classifiers
    • OpenCV
    • Drones
    • GPU (Graphics Processing Unit)
    • Rekognition
    • Cloud Vision API
    • TensorFlow Object Detection API
    • Sonnet
    • DeepMind
    • Caffe

    The intro and outro music is from Requiem for a Fish The Freak Fandango Orchestra / CC BY-SA

    Thonny: The IDE For Beginning Programmers with Aivar Annamaa Mar 18, 2018
    Show notes

    Summary

    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 process Aivar Annamaa built Thonny, a Python IDE designed for beginning programmers. In this episode he discusses his initial motivations for starting Thonny and how it helps newcomers to Python learn and understand how to write software.

    Preface

    • Hello and welcome to Podcast.__init__, the podcast about Python and the people who make it great.
    • When you’re ready to launch your next app you’ll need somewhere to deploy it, so check out Linode. With private networking, shared block storage, node balancers, and a 40Gbit network, all controlled by a brand new API you’ve got everything you need to scale up. Go to podcastinit.com/linode to get a $20 credit and launch a new server in under a minute.
    • For complete visibility into your application stack, deployment tracking, and powerful alerting, DataDog has got you covered. With their monitoring, metrics, and log collection agent, including extensive integrations and distributed tracing, you’ll have everything you need to find and fix bugs in no time. Go to podcastinit.com/datadog today to start your free 14 day trial and get a sweet new T-Shirt.
    • To get worry-free releases download GoCD, the open source continous delivery server built by Thoughworks. You can use their pipeline modeling and value stream map to build, control and monitor every step from commit to deployment in one place. Go to podcastinit.com/gocd to learn more about their professional support services and enterprise add-ons.
    • Visit podcastinit.com to subscribe to the show, sign up for the newsletter, and read the show notes.
    • Your host as usual is Tobias Macey and today I’m interviewing Aivar Annamaa about Thonny, a Python IDE for beginning programmers

    Interview

    • Introductions
    • How did you get introduced to Python?
    • What was your motivation for building an IDE focused on beginning programmers?
    • What are the features of Thonny that make it easier for users to understand what is happening in their programs?
    • What have you found to be the types of issues that users most frequently struggle with and how does Thonny help overcome those gaps in understanding?
    • What kinds of tutorials or supporting material have you found to be the most useful for teaching students the principles that they need to be able to take advantage of the environment that Thonny provides?
    • How is Thonny built and what have been the most challenging aspects of writing an IDE in Python?
    • What are some of the interface design choices that you have made to avoid confusing or overwhelming beginning users?
    • Once a user becomes more proficient in Python is there a point where it no longer makes sense to continue using Thonny for development?
    • I noticed that Thonny has an plugin architecture and there is an extension for interacting with the BBC micro:bit. What are some of the other types of extensions that you would like to see built for Thonny?

    Keep In Touch

    • Aivar
      • @aivarannamaa on Twitter
      • aivarannamaa on GitHub
      • Google Scholar Page

    • Thonny
      • Website
      • Forum
      • @thonnyide on Twitter
      • Source repository and wiki

    Picks

    • Tobias
      • Data Engineering Podcast
      • Kubo and the Two Strings

    • Aivar
      • MicroPython
      • Podcast.__init__ Interview
      • How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk

    Links

    • Thonny
    • University of Tartu
    • Estonia
    • Recursion
    • TKinter
    • Aivar Estonian Textbook
    • Pascal
    • MyPy
      • Podcast.__init__ Interview

    • BBC Micro:bit

    • Version Control

    • GitHub

    • GitLab

    • Elm Compiler Messages

    The intro and outro music is from Requiem for a Fish The Freak Fandango Orchestra / CC BY-SA

    Keeping The Beets with Adrian Sampson Mar 12, 2018
    Show notes

    Summary

    Maintaining a consistent taxonomy for your music library is a challenging and time consuming endeavor. Eventually you end up with a mess of folders and files with inconsistent names and missing metadata. Beets is built to solve this problem by programmatically managing the tags and directory structure for all of your music files and providing a fast lookup when you are trying to find that perfect song to play. Adrian Sampson began the project because he was trying to clean up his own music collection and in this episode he discusses how the project was built, how streaming media is affecting our relationship to digital music, and how he envisions Beets position in the ecosystem in the future.

    Preface

    • Hello and welcome to Podcast.__init__, the podcast about Python and the people who make it great.
    • I would like to thank everyone who supports us on Patreon. Your contributions help to make the show sustainable.
    • When you’re ready to launch your next project you’ll need somewhere to deploy it. Check out Linode at podastinit.com/linode and get a $20 credit to try out their fast and reliable Linux virtual servers for running your awesome app. And now you can deliver your work to your users even faster with the newly upgraded 200 GBit network in all of their datacenters.
    • If you’re tired of cobbling together your deployment pipeline then it’s time to try out GoCD, the open source continuous delivery platform built by the people at ThoughtWorks who wrote the book about it. With GoCD you get complete visibility into the life-cycle of your software from one location. To download it now go to podcatinit.com/gocd. Professional support and enterprise plugins are available for added piece of mind.
    • Visit the site to subscribe to the show, sign up for the newsletter, and read the show notes. And if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions I would love to hear them. You can reach me on Twitter at @Podcast__init__ or email hosts@podcastinit.com)
    • To help other people find the show please leave a review on iTunes, or Google Play Music, tell your friends and co-workers, and share it on social media.
    • Your host as usual is Tobias Macey and today I’m interviewing Adrian Sampson about Beets, the swiss army knife for managing your music library.

    Interview

    • Introductions
    • How did you get introduced to Python?
    • What is Beets and what was your reason for creating it?
      • What was your reason for using Python and if you were to start over today would you make the same choice?

    • If I have a directory with inconsistent naming conventions, poor organization, and some random folders full of mixed MP3 files how can Beets help me and what does the workflow look like?

    • How is Beets architected to allow for interactively processing a large volume of media files and how has the design evolved over the time that you have been working on it?

    • What are your thoughts on the current trend toward streaming music services replacing local media files?

    • What have been some of the most challenging aspects of building Beets?

    • What are some of the most interesting uses for Beets that you have seen?

    • What are some of the other projects for managing a music library and how does Beets compare to them?

    • Are there any features that you have planned for the future of Beets, or any new functionality that you would like to see contributed?

    Keep In Touch

    • sampsyo on GitHub
    • Website
    • @samps on Twitter

    Picks

    • Tobias
      • Mozart’s Requiem
      • Wikipedia
      • YouTube
      • Gov’t Mule
      • Darkest Hour

    • Adrian
      • Spiralizer
      • Spiralized Beats With Pesto

    Links

    • Beets
    • SQLite
    • Mutagen
    • ID3 Tags
    • Musicbrainz
    • Bandcamp
    • Free Music Archive
    • Cornell
    • AcoustID
    • Chromaprint
    • Musicbrainz Picard
    • iTunes
    • Spotify
    • Amazon Music
    • DLNA
    • UPnP
    • AURA

    The intro and outro music is from Requiem for a Fish The Freak Fandango Orchestra / CC BY-SA

    Salabim: Logistics Simulation with Ruud van der Ham Mar 04, 2018
    Show notes

    Summary

    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 determine the optimal algorithm for managing the logistics of everything from global shipping lanes to your local bank, it is better to do that analysis in a simulation. Ruud van der Ham has been working in this area for the majority of his professional life at the Dutch port of Rotterdam. Using his acquired domain knowledge he wrote Salabim as a library to assist others in writing detailed simulations of their own and make logistical analysis of real world systems accessible to anyone with a Python interpreter.

    Preface

    • Hello and welcome to Podcast.__init__, the podcast about Python and the people who make it great.
    • I would like to thank everyone who supports us on Patreon. Your contributions help to make the show sustainable.
    • When you’re ready to launch your next project you’ll need somewhere to deploy it. Check out Linode at podastinit.com/linode and get a $20 credit to try out their fast and reliable Linux virtual servers for running your awesome app. And now you can deliver your work to your users even faster with the newly upgraded 200 GBit network in all of their datacenters.
    • If you’re tired of cobbling together your deployment pipeline then it’s time to try out GoCD, the open source continuous delivery platform built by the people at ThoughtWorks who wrote the book about it. With GoCD you get complete visibility into the life-cycle of your software from one location. To download it now go to podcatinit.com/gocd. Professional support and enterprise plugins are available for added piece of mind.
    • Visit the site to subscribe to the show, sign up for the newsletter, and read the show notes. And if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions I would love to hear them. You can reach me on Twitter at @Podcast__init__ or email hosts@podcastinit.com)
    • To help other people find the show please leave a review on iTunes, or Google Play Music, tell your friends and co-workers, and share it on social media.
    • Your host as usual is Tobias Macey and today I’m interviewing Ruud van der Ham about Salabim, a Python library for conducting discrete event simulations

    Interview

    • Introductions
    • How did you get introduced to Python?
    • Can you start by explaining what Discrete Event Simulation is and how Salabim helps with that?
      • Can you explain how you chose the name?

    • What was your motivation for creating Salabim and how does it compare to other tools for discrete event simulation?

    • How does discrete event simulation compare with state machines?

    • How is Salabim implemented and how has the design evolved over the time that you have been working on it?

    • I understand that you have done a majority of Salabim was written on an iPad. Can you speak about why you have chosen that as your development environment and your experience working in that manner?

    • What are some examples of the types of models that you can model with Salabim?
      • What would an implementation of one of these models look like for someone using Salabim?

    • What options does a user have to verify the accuracy of a simulation created with Salabim?

    • One of the nice aspects of Salabim is the fact that it provides a visual output as a simulation runs. Can you describe the workflow for someone who wants to use Salabim for modeling and visualizing a system?

    • At what point does a system become too complex to encapsulate in a simulation and what techniques can you use to modularize it to make a simulation useful?

    • When is Salabim not the right tool to use and what would you suggest for people who find themselves in that situation?

    • What have been some of the most complicated or difficult aspects of building and maintaining Salabim?

    • What are some of the new features or improvements that you have planned for the future of Salabim?

    Keep In Touch

    • Email

    Picks

    • Tobias
      • Cuisinart Burr Mill Coffee Grinder

    • Ruud
      • Pythonista (Python for iOS)
      • Python Notes for Professionals
      • Fluent Python by Luciano Ramalho

    Links

    • Salabim
      • GitHub

    • Dining Philosophers Animation

    • Elevator Animation

    • Rotterdam

    • Discrete Event Simulation

    • Container Terminal Automation

    • Basic

    • Algol

    • Pascal

    • Operations Research

    • Continuous Simulation

    • Simula

    • Coroutines

    • SymPy

    • Another DES in Python: SimPy

    • DES in Julia: SimJulia

    • DES in R: Simmer

    • DES in Delphi/Pascal: Tomas

    • Pillow

    • PyPy

    • Delphi

    • PyGame

    • PyQT

    • TkInter

    • Inspect Module

    • OpenCV

    • Blender

    The intro and outro music is from Requiem for a Fish The Freak Fandango Orchestra / CC BY-SA

    Laboratory: Safer Refactoring with Joe Alcorn Feb 26, 2018
    Show notes

    Summary

    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 system, increasing the risks associated with any change. One way around this problem is to compare the results of the new code against the existing logic to ensure that you aren’t introducing regressions. This week Joe Alcorn shares his work on Laboratory, how the engineers at GitHub inspired him to create it as an analog to the Scientist gem, and how he is using it for his day job.

    Preface

    • Hello and welcome to Podcast.__init__, the podcast about Python and the people who make it great.
    • I would like to thank everyone who supports us on Patreon. Your contributions help to make the show sustainable.
    • When you’re ready to launch your next project you’ll need somewhere to deploy it. Check out Linode at podastinit.com/linode and get a $20 credit to try out their fast and reliable Linux virtual servers for running your awesome app. And now you can deliver your work to your users even faster with the newly upgraded 200 GBit network in all of their datacenters.
    • If you’re tired of cobbling together your deployment pipeline then it’s time to try out GoCD, the open source continuous delivery platform built by the people at ThoughtWorks who wrote the book about it. With GoCD you get complete visibility into the life-cycle of your software from one location. To download it now go to podcatinit.com/gocd. Professional support and enterprise plugins are available for added piece of mind.
    • Visit the site to subscribe to the show, sign up for the newsletter, and read the show notes. And if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions I would love to hear them. You can reach me on Twitter at @Podcast__init__ or email hosts@podcastinit.com)
    • To help other people find the show please leave a review on iTunes, or Google Play Music, tell your friends and co-workers, and share it on social media.
    • A brief announcement before we start the show:
      • If you work with data or want to learn more about how the projects you have heard about on the show get used in the real world then join me at the Open Data Science Conference in Boston from May 1st through the 4th. It has become one of the largest events for data scientists, data engineers, and data driven businesses to get together and learn how to be more effective. To save 60% off your tickets go to podcastinit.com/odsc-east-2018 and register.

    • Your host as usual is Tobias Macey and today I’m interviewing Joe Alcorn about using Laboratory as a safety net for your refactoring.

    Interview

    • Introductions
    • How did you get introduced to Python?
    • Can you start be explaining what Laboratory is and what motivated you to start the project?
    • How much of the design and implementation were directly inspired by the Scientist project from GitHub and how much of it did you have to figure out from scratch due to differences in the target languages?
    • What have been some of the most challenging aspects of building and maintaining Laboratory, and have you had any opportunities to use it on itself?
    • For someone who would like to use Laboratory in their project, what does the workflow look like and what potential pitfalls should they watch out for?
    • In the documentation you mention that portions of code that perform I/O and create side effects should be avoided. Have you found any strategies to allow for stubbing out the external interactions while still executing the rest of the logic?
    • How do you keep track of the results for active experiments and what sort of reporting is available?
    • What are some examples of the types of routines that would be good candidates for conducting an experiment?
    • What are some of the most complicated or difficult pieces of code that you have refactored with the help of Laboratory?
    • Given the fact that Laboratory is intended to be run in production and provide a certain measure of safety, what methods do you use to ensure that users of the library will not suffer from a drastic increase in overhead or unintended aberrations in the functionality of their software?
    • Are there any new features or improvements that you have planned for future releases of Laboratory?

    Keep In Touch

    • joealcorn on GitHub
    • Website

    Picks

    • Tobias
      • Chronicles of Narnia

    • Joe
      • Why We Sleep: Unlocking The Power of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker, PhD

    Links

    • Marvel App
    • GitHub: Move Fast and Fix Things
    • GitHub Scientist: Measure Twice, Cut Over Once
    • Scientist
    • Laboratory
    • Sure Footed Refactoring
    • Graphite
    • StatsD

    The intro and outro music is from Requiem for a Fish The Freak Fandango Orchestra / CC BY-SA

    Software Architecture For Developers with Neal Ford Feb 18, 2018
    Show notes

    Summary

    Whether it is intentional or accidental, every piece of software has an existing architecture. In this episode Neal Ford discusses the role of a software architect, methods for improving the design of your projects, pitfalls to avoid, and provides some resources for continuing to learn about how to design and build successful systems.

    Preface

    • Hello and welcome to Podcast.__init__, the podcast about Python and the people who make it great.
    • I would like to thank everyone who supports us on Patreon. Your contributions help to make the show sustainable.
    • When you’re ready to launch your next project you’ll need somewhere to deploy it. Check out Linode at podastinit.com/linode and get a $20 credit to try out their fast and reliable Linux virtual servers for running your awesome app. And now you can deliver your work to your users even faster with the newly upgraded 200 GBit network in all of their datacenters.
    • If you’re tired of cobbling together your deployment pipeline then it’s time to try out GoCD, the open source continuous delivery platform built by the people at ThoughtWorks who wrote the book about it. With GoCD you get complete visibility into the life-cycle of your software from one location. To download it now go to podcatinit.com/gocd. Professional support and enterprise plugins are available for added piece of mind.
    • Visit the site to subscribe to the show, sign up for the newsletter, and read the show notes. And if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions I would love to hear them. You can reach me on Twitter at @Podcast__init__ or email hosts@podcastinit.com)
    • To help other people find the show please leave a review on iTunes, or Google Play Music, tell your friends and co-workers, and share it on social media.
    • A few announcements before we start the show:
      • There is still time to register for the O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference in New York. Use the link podcastinit.com/sacon-new-york to register and save 20%
      • If you work with data or want to learn more about how the projects you have heard about on the show get used in the real world then join me at the Open Data Science Conference in Boston from May 1st through the 4th. It has become one of the largest events for data scientists, data engineers, and data driven businesses to get together and learn how to be more effective. To save 60% off your tickets go to podcastinit.com/odsc-east-2018 and register.

    • With many thanks to O’Reilly Media, I have two items to give away. To sign up you just need to subscribe to the mailing list at podcastinit.com and you will have the chance to win either a copy of Neal’s book, Building Evolutionary Architectures, or a Bronze ticket to the O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference in New York. I will be picking the winners on February 21st.

    • Your host as usual is Tobias Macey and today I’m interviewing Neal Ford about principles of software architecture for developers

    Interview

    • Introductions
    • How did you get introduced to Python?
    • A majority of your work has been focused on software architectures and how that can be used to facilitate delivery of working systems. Can you start by giving a high level description of what software architecture is and how it fits into the overall development process?
    • One of the difficulties that arise in long-lived projects is that technical debt accrues to the point that forward progress stagnates due to fear that any changes will cause the system to stop functioning. What are some methods that developers can use to either guard against that eventuality, or address it when it happens?
    • What are some of the broad categories of architectural patterns that developers should be aware of?
    • Are there aspects of the language that a system or application is being implemented in which influence the style of architecture that is commonly used?
    • What are some architectural anti-patterns that you have found to be the most commonly occurring?
    • Software is useless if there is no way to deliver it to the end user. What are some of the challenges that are most often overlooked by engineering teams and how do you solve for them?
    • Beyond the purely technological aspects, what other elements of software production and delivery are necessary for a successful architecture?
    • What resources can you recommend for someone who is interested in learning more about software architecture, whether as an individual contributor or in a full time architect role?

    Keep In Touch

    • Website
    • @neal4d on Twitter

    Picks

    • Tobias
      • Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
      • Lost City of Z

    • Neal
      • DeveloperToArchitect.com
      • EvolutionaryArchitecture.com
      • Broken Earth Series

    Links

    • Thoughtworks
    • Neal’s Blog
    • Lisp
    • Thoughtworks Technology Radar
    • Martin Fowler: Who Needs an Architect?
    • O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference
    • Soft Skills
    • Microservices
    • Building Evolutionary Architectures
    • Github: Move Fast and Fix Things
    • Continuous Delivery
    • Github Scientist
    • Laboratory (Scientist in Python)
    • Agile Development
    • The Accidental Architect
    • System Quality Attributes
    • Pipes and Filters
    • MapReduce
    • Hadoop
    • Service Oriented Architecture
    • Linux
    • DevOps
    • Configuration Management
    • React
    • Alibaba Open Source
    • Baidu Open Source
    • Pragmatic Programmer
    • Trunk Based Development
    • PlantUML
    • Visio
    • Mermaid Diagrams
    • Graphviz
    • Evernote
    • Software Architecture Fundamentals
    • Enterprise Integration Patterns
    • Architectural Katas

    The intro and outro music is from Requiem for a Fish The Freak Fandango Orchestra / CC BY-SA

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