Episode Followup – Mesa Digital Twins, Python & OSS with Dr. Jacqueline Kazil
Jackie Kazil is Director of GIS Solutions at Bana Solutions and a core contributor for the Mesa Python project. In this episode she …
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Episode Followup – Pytest: Using Tests as Happy Little Experiments with Brian Okken
Brian Okken is author of ‘Python Testing with Pytest’, host/co-host of Python Bytes, Python People, and Test & Code (whew!!).
Episode Followup – Consuming Web Data in Python with and without an API with Michael Kennedy
Michael Kennedy is host of Talk Python To Me & an instructor. This episode is basically an hour long LIVE DEMO where we talk …
Episode Followup – Sleep Better By Writing Python Test with Eric Matthes
Eric Matthes is author of the best selling book Python Crash Course. In this episode he discusses the why of software testing and then walks us through a live coding example to create tests for a text editor he created! Resources: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-matthes-598765205/ https://nostarch.com/python-crash-course-3rd-edition https://ehmatthes.github.io/pcc_3e/ https://mostlypython.substack.com/ https://github.com/ehmatthes/django-simple-deploy https://django-simple-deploy.readthedocs.io https://github.com/initialcommit-com/git-sim https://github.com/ehmatthes/whimbrel https://pypi.org/project/pexpect/ http://learngrandstaff.com/ https://automationpanda.com/2018/08/01/the-testing-pyramid/
Episode Followup – Refactoring Your Python Code Without Losing Your Mind with Chris May
Chris May is a Python Consultant, Trainer, & Author: In this episode, he discusses best practices & methods for refactoring your Python code. When you should, when you shouldn’t, and gives us a step-by-step example of how to do it! Resources: https://www.linkedin.com/in/1chrismay/ https://fosstodon.org/@_chrismay https://twitter.com/_ChrisMay https://blog.alexewerlof.com/p/tech-debt-day https://everydaysuperpowers.dev/resources/python-refactoring-toolkit/ https://everydaysuperpowers.dev
Episode Followup – Introduction to Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Pulumi
Old friend of the show Scott Lowe is Principal Technical Content Engineer at Pulumi and in this episode he talks about the value of infrastructure as code (IaC) and gives us a LIVE DEMO! Resources: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottslowe/ https://twitter.com/scott_lowe
Episode Followup – The Lambda Sidecar Pattern for Kubernetes Event-Driven Architecture with AWS Hero Ken Collins
Ken Collins is an AWS Serverless Hero and a Staff Engineer for Custom Ink, and in this episode, he takes us through software design patterns, Kubernetes, and AWS Lambda! Resources: https://www.linkedin.com/in/metaskills/
Episode Followup – Building a To-Do checklist with Django and Bulma CSS
Fafa, aka, Python King, will show us how to build a simple to-do checklist application with Python. Although this could seem like a simple thing to do, it will be an easy way to introduce you into some tools and resources needed to build an application in Python using Django and Bulma CSS Resources: https://github.com/UffaModey
Episode Followup – Building a To-Do checklist with Django and Bulma CSS
Fafa, aka, Python King, will show us how to build a simple to-do checklist application with Python. Although this could seem like a simple thing to do, it will be an easy way to introduce you into some tools and resources needed to build an application in Python using Django and Bulma CSS Resources: https://github.com/UffaModey
Episode Followup – How I Used Python & JavaScript to Build 3-D Tools in Space! with Christi Kazakov
Chrisi Kazakov is Senior Software Engineer for WWT and in this episode we talk about a “fun little side project” that she is doing where she’s creating a program that helps PEOPLE IN SPACE select the correct tool to be 3-D printed faster in a “stressful environment” (like… the air is leaving the space capsule!)
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Episode Followup – Flying Blind: Real-Time Video Analytics w/ #Python & OpenCV with Leah Ellis-Clemons
Data Scientist at World Wide Technology, Leah Ellis-Clemons gives an overview of the specific considerations for implementing machine learning models in Python in real time including OpenCV and Multiprocessing… She gives us a live demonstration of her code as well! Resources: https://github.com/LEllisClemons/Lego_Detector_Realtime https://www.kaggle.com/code/databeru/classify-bricks-compare-transfer-learning-model/notebook https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/joosthazelzet/lego-brick-images https://www.linkedin.com/in/leah-ellis-clemons-6230aa68/ https://www.udemy.com/course/python-for-computer-vision-with-opencv-and-deep-learning
Episode Followup – Onboarding on Kubernetes by Rob Koch
AWS Hero Rob Koch (@robcube) gives us an introduction to Kubernetes, AWS EKS, K8s best practices and tons of live demo fun that you can do at home! Resources: https://twitter.com/robcube https://github.com/robcube https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/introducing-amazon-eks-distro/
Episode Followup – The AI way of reminding you to wear face masks – Vivek Raja
Vivek Raja @VivekRaja007 https://aws.amazon.com/developer/community/heroes/vivek-raja/ presented a very cool session for #vBrownbag. He made AWS Rekognition easy to understand and walked us through how to begin, and even shared the repo where he has the code he showed in the live demo https://github.com/Vivek0712/aws-reskill-ai-services
Episode Followup – Build Cloud-Native Apps with Serverless Integration Testing by Luc van Donkersgoed
In this fantastic episode, AWS Hero and Community Builder Luc van Donkersgoed (@donkersgood) gives us a view into how his company has incorporated integration testing into their serverless AWS environments! Resources: https://twitter.com/donkersgood https://bitesizedserverless.com/
Episode Followup – Prevent Surprise AWS Bills Through Simple Free Monitoring by Chris Scott
Chris Scott (@ccsdevio) comes on to talk about all things AWS Cost Optimization! We learn about the AWS costing structure, best practices, how to setup AWS Lambdas to monitor cost, and a little bit about impostor syndrome! Resources: https://twitter.com/ccsdevio https://github.com/ccsdevio/saferAWS
Episode Followup – Add In-Skill Purchasing To Your Alexa Skill presented by Brian Tarbox
AWS Hero Brian Tarbox (@btarbox) comes on to talk about all things AWS Alexa! How to make an Alexa app (a ‘skill’), how to make in-skill purchasing options, and how to retire early off all that money! Resources: https://twitter.com/btarbox https://briantarbox.org/
Episode Followup – Getting Started With Python Visualizations with Jessica Garson
Jessica Garson presents “Getting Started With Python Visualizations” Jessica Garson is a senior developer advocate for twitter as well as a musician who creates her sound with python! In this episode she live codes how to quickly stand up a data visualization using Python & the Twitter API! Resources: https://twitter.com/jessicagarson https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/getting-started https://dev.to/twitterdev/getting-started-with-data-visualization-with-dash-and-recent-search-counts-22jn https://getting-started-with-dash.herokuapp.com/ https://twittercommunity.com/
Episode Followup – Pydantic: Modern Python Data Validation and Settings by Michael Kennedy
Michael Kennedy (@mkennedy) returns to the show to talk about Pydantic, a Python library that works with data validation and settings management using Python type annotations. Michael joined us previously to discuss Python’s async and await implementations and we are excited to have him back to dive more into all things Python. Michael is a
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Episode Followup – All I need to know about cybersecurity and digital citizenship I learned in middle school with Sean Tibor
Sean discusses lessons he’s learned from his middle school students and how parallels can be drawn to the IT Security world. Resources: https://www.teachingpython.fm/ https://barbaraoakley.com/ https://thenextweb.com/news/weather-apps-are-secretly-selling-your-location-data-to-the-highest-bidder https://www.amazon.com/Soul-New-Machine-Tracy-Kidder-ebook/dp/B005HG4W9W https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0083DJXCM/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1925
Episode Followup – How to Start Doing Data Science with Ayodele Odubela
Ayodele Odubela (@DataSciBae) presents “How to Start Doing Data Science” Ayodele gives us an intro into data science. What it is and what you need to know if you want to get into the field. Code for 25% off her new book: VBROWNBAG Resources: https://ayodeleodubela.com https://bit.ly/DS4A_AYO https://www2.slideshare.net/AyodeleROdubela/how-to-start-doing-data-science-240762610