Resources for learning and using Python
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/
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
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/
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/
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[…]
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
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
Michael Herman (@MikeHerman) continues our Python For DevOps series how to use Python, Docker, and AWS Fargate to run a Flask microservice! It’s a lot of knowledge in 46 minutes to hang on tight! Resources: https://gitlab.com/testdriven/flask-tdd-docker/tree/aws-fargate https://testdriven.io/courses/tdd-flask/ https://testdriven.io/ https://realpython.com/ https://mherman.org/ https://github.com/mjhea0
Eric Matthes (@ehmatthes), author of the best seller Python Crash Course, continues our Python For DevOps series, shares baby pics of himself, and does a live coding exercise using the requests module and threading! Resources: https://ehmatthes.github.io/pcc_2e https://ehmatthes.github.io https://nostarch.com/pythoncrashcourse2e
Tom Burge (@vcixninja) continues our Python For DevOps series with a look at vRA Cloud, VMware CodeStream, & Flask Resources: https://github.com/tomburge/dice-data-collector https://github.com/tomburge/ https://tomburge.org/