Join me for an insightful conversation with Alex Monahan, who works on documentation, tutorials, and training at DuckDB Labs. We explore why DuckDB is gaining momentum among Python and data enthusiasts, from its in-process database design to its blazingly fast, columnar architecture. We also dive into indexing strategies, concurrency considerations, and the ... Show More
Aug 19
#559: 12 Things You Should (and Shouldn't) Do in AWS
Your site is down. It's 3am. Is it a bug, a bill, or a breach? You can't tell yet, and everyone is watching you find out. Matt Lea has spent fifteen years being the person companies call when an outage is costing them real money per hour, and his whole argument is that everything ... Show More
1h 7m
Aug 10
#558: Hyper-Personal Software with Python
Every company has one. The little internal tool that Jane built back in 2021, and then Jane left. Nobody understands it, nobody will touch it. There are two unwritten rules around it: don't change it, it's working. And if you break it, you bought it. That's dark-matter enterprise ... Show More
1h 2m
Aug 2
#557: Security of everything at PyCon 2026
Security has always been the vegetables of software. Everyone agrees it matters, and somehow it never quite makes it onto the plate. At PyCon US this year, that changed. For the first time ever, security got its own dedicated, day-long track, one of just two at the whole conferen ... Show More
1h 8m
Oct 2024
Big data is dead, analytics is alive
We are on the other side of “big data” hype, but what is the future of analytics and how does AI fit in? Till and Adithya from MotherDuck join us to discuss why DuckDB is taking the analytics and AI world by storm. We dive into what makes DuckDB, a free, in-process SQL OLAP datab ... Show More
50m 19s
Apr 2021
4: What The Heck Is Python? Interview with Dustin Schimek
<p><strong>Today’s episode is a conversation I had with Dustin Schimek who is the director of analytics at the master lock company. He had me on his LinkedIn live to talk about what Python is, why it is important, how to get started, and other random stuff.</strong></p>
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50m 35s
Nov 2016
Python, Django, and Channels (Interview)
Django core contributor Andrew Godwin joins the show to tell us all about Python and Django. If you've ever wondered why people love Python, what Django's virtues are as a web framework, or how Django Channels measure up to Phoenix's Channels and Rails' Action Cable, this is the ... Show More
1h 15m
Nov 2016
Python, Django, and Channels (Changelog Interviews #229)
Django core contributor Andrew Godwin joins the show to tell us all about Python and Django. If you've ever wondered why people love Python, what Django's virtues are as a web framework, or how Django Channels measure up to Phoenix's Channels and Rails' Action Cable, this is the ... Show More
1h 15m
May 2023
675: Pandas for Data Analysis and Visualization
Wrangling data in Pandas, when to use Pandas, Matplotlib or Seaborn, and why you should learn to create Python packages: Jon Krohn speaks with guest Stefanie Molin, author of Hands-On Data Analysis with Pandas.
This episode is brought to you by Posit, the open-source data science ... Show More
1h 8m