Talk Python To Me

Did you know that Docker was not the original product from the team that built it? They were working on ways to improve their PaaS cloud platform and docker was just a side product! But oh what a side product. Wisely, dotCloud cancelled their PaaS plans and became Docker Inc.

Did you know that Australia is making text-based computer programming a core requirement for high school students? Grok Learning is building the platform to make teaching it to kids a joy for teachers and students. Our guest, Dr. James Curran is a key player in both of these projects. Join Michael in a conversation with Dr. Curran from Sydney University and co- founder of Grok Learning to learn about both of these and more! You'll learn about the different types of online tutorials, or short courses, you can use for learning or teaching including a text-based MUD game!

Programming is fun. Robots are fun. Programming robots is awesome! This episode Michael speaks with Dirk Thomas from the ROS (Robot Operating System) project. You will learn how to use ROS and ROSPy to program robots.

Come and get plugged right into the middle the inner circle of the Python community with Kenneth Reitz. You'll get some insight into conversations from the latest Language Summit. Kenneth works at Heroku and may be best known for creating Requests - HTTP for Humans. Requests is the most popular package on PyPI, It has been downloaded over 40,000,000 times.

Come and get plugged right into the middle the inner circle of the Python community with Kenneth Reitz. You'll get some insight into conversations from the latest Language Summit. Kenneth works at Heroku and may be best known for creating Requests - HTTP for Humans. Requests is the most popular package on PyPI, It has been downloaded over 40,000,000 times.

In this episode we speak with Mike Bayer. Mike created SQLAlchemy in 2005 and over the past 10 years has been building and refining this amazing RDBMS ORM and data access layer. You'll learn a lot about the history of the project and how it has evolved over time. You'll also here where Mike got some of his inspiration for the design patterns used in the library.

Mahmoud is lead developer of the Python Infrastructure team at eBay/PayPal and he has some amazing facts and studies to discuss about the truths and myths using Python for _real_ projects. We discuss how eBay is using Python internally for many large-scale uses. Then we move on to discuss the 10 myths of enterprise Python, such as Python is not compiled, Python is weakly-typed, Python does not scale, and more.

Join Michael for a conversation with Chris McDonough about the Pyramid web framework. You'll learn about what Pyramid is and how it compares to frameworks like Django, Flask, Bottle, and more. We discuss the history of the project and how Chris took inspiration from the Pylons project as well as some notable uses of Pyramid

In this show we speak with Jesse Davis from MongoDB. Jesse is the maintainer for a number of popular open-source projects including the Python MongoDB driver known as PyMongo and Mongo C (for C/C++ developers, yes you read right! C developers).

In this episode, our guest is Nicola Iarocci discuss his open-source RESTful framework named EVE. You will learn about the history of EVE, how you get started, and some of the more notable deployment and users of the framework. Nicola and Michael talk about the careful balance of leading a successful open-source project in EVE and keeping the day job going. You'll also learn why Nicola chose MongoDB as the default backend for EVE. We also discuss how Nicola got into Python and compare and contrast the open- source world of the Python community with other ecosystems such as the C# / .NET ecosystem. **Check out Nicola's course on[Eve REST Framework](https://training.talkpython.fm/courses/explore_eve/eve-building- restful-mongodb-backed-apis-course)** [  training.talkpython.fm/courses/explore_eve/eve-building-restful-mongodb- backed-apis-course ](https://training.talkpython.fm/courses/explore_eve/eve-building-restful- mongodb-backed-apis-course)

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