Nov 10

#527: MCP Servers for Python Devs

Today we’re digging into the Model Context Protocol, or MCP. Think LSP for AI: build a small Python service once and your tools and data show up across editors and agents like VS Code, Claude Code, and more. My guest, Den Delimarsky from Microsoft, helps build this space and will ... Show More

1h 6m

Nov 1

#526: Building Data Science with Foundation LLM Models

Today, we’re talking about building real AI products with foundation models. Not toy demos, not vibes. We’ll get into the boring dashboards that save launches, evals that change your mind, and the shift from analyst to AI app builder. Our guide is Hugo Bowne-Anderson, educator, p ... Show More

1h 7m

Oct 27

#525: NiceGUI Goes 3.0

Building a UI in Python usually means choosing between "quick and limited" or "powerful and painful." What if you could write modern, component-based web apps in pure Python and still keep full control? NiceGUI, pronounced "Nice Guy" sits on FastAPI with a Vue/Quasar front end, g ... Show More

1h 17m

Sep 2021

Massively Parallel Data Processing In Python Without The Effort Using Bodo

<div class="wp-block-jetpack-markdown"><h2>Summary</h2> <p>Python has beome the de facto language for working with data. That has brought with it a number of challenges having to do with the speed and scalability of working with large volumes of information.There have been many ... Show More

1h 4m

Feb 2023

Shorten the distance between production data and insight

<p>Modern networked applications generate a lot of data, and every business wants to make the most of that data. Most of the time, that means moving production data through some transformation process to get it ready for the analytics process. But what if you could have in-app an ... Show More

20m 27s

Mar 2024

Ship Smarter Not Harder With Declarative And Collaborative Data Orchestration On Dagster+

<h2>Summary</h2> <p>A core differentiator of Dagster in the ecosystem of data orchestration is their focus on software defined assets as a means of building declarative workflows. With their launch of Dagster+ as the redesigned commercial companion to the open source project t ... Show More

55m 40s

Apr 2024

Establish A Single Source Of Truth For Your Data Consumers With A Semantic Layer

<h2>Summary</h2> <p>Maintaining a single source of truth for your data is the biggest challenge in data engineering. Different roles and tasks in the business need their own ways to access and analyze the data in the organization. In order to enable this use case, while mainta ... Show More

56m 23s

Oct 2023

#628: Data on EKS

Organizations use their data to make better decisions and build innovative experiences for their customers. With the exponential growth in data, and the rapid pace of innovation in machine learning (ML), there is a growing need to build modern data applications that are agile and ... Show More

20m 56s

Feb 2024

G: The World's Smartest Animal

<p>This episode begins with a rant. This rant, in particular, comes from Dan Engber - a science writer who loves animals but despises animal intelligence research. Dan told us that so much of the way we study animals involves tests that we think show a human is smart ... not the ... Show More

50m 20s

Feb 2024

Microsoft's New Direction with Copilot, Data Management & Retention, Tech Skills Shortage

<p style="font-weight: 400;">The Transformation Ground Control podcast covers a number of topics important to digital and business transformation. This episode covers the following topics and interviews:</p> <ol><li>Microsoft’s New Direction with Copilot, Q&A (Darian Chwialko ... Show More

1h 54m

Jan 2024

Introducing On This Day in Working Class History: A new daily podcast from WCH

Introducing a brand-new daily podcast from the team at WCH. On This Day in Working Class History will be a brief reminder each morning of our collective struggles for a better world which have taken place on this date in history. Launching on 1 February on a trial basis, each epi ... Show More

2m 32s

Feb 2024

Episode 108 - Diving into Amazon Q Builder with Clare Liguori

🚀 Dive into the world of AI with Morgan Willis, Principal Cloud Technologist for AWS, as she interviews Clare Liguori, a Senior Principal Software Engineer at AWS and one of the visionaries behind Amazon Q. Discover the secrets behind this groundbreaking Generative AI conversati ... Show More

48m 6s

#454: Data Pipelines with Dagster