Up and Running with Rust Course

## The Python developer's fast track to Rust Learn the language behind Ruff, uv, Polars, and Pydantic, then build your own compiled Rust extension and call it directly from Python.

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Talk Python Training Apps

Watch our courses on your device, on the go, or even offline! Our mobile apps are the best way to experience Talk Python courses on Android and iOS.

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Python Web Security: OWASP Top 10 with Agentic AI Course

When Mozilla recently ran Claude over the Firefox JavaScript runtime, the AI uncovered more than 100 bugs, 14 of th...

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Event Sourcing Design Pattern

What if your database worked more like Git? Every change captured as an immutable event you can replay, instead of a single mutating row that quietly forgets its own history. That's event sourcing, an...

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Announcing German Subtitles on Courses

Full German subtitles and transcripts are now live on every Talk Python Training course. Switch the player's CC to Deutsch in one click, resize captions to your liking, and watch for Spanish coming ne...

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Introducing the new Talk Python web player

Talk Python To Me has rebuilt the web audio player on every episode page. The new player shows transcripts live as the episode plays, supports adjustable playback speed, and remembers where you left o...

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Deep Agents: LangChain's SDK for Agents That Plan and Delegate

When you type a question into ChatGPT, the model only has what you typed to work with. But tools like Claude Code can plan, iterate, test, and recover from mistakes. They work more like we do. The dif...

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Cutting Python Web App Memory Over 31%

I reduced Python web app memory by 3.2 GB using async workers, import isolation, the Raw+DC database pattern, and disk caching. Detailed before and after numbers for each technique.

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Raw+DC Database Pattern: A Retrospective

After migrating three production Python web apps to the Raw+DC database pattern, I share real-world performance benchmarks: nearly 2x requests per second, 18% less memory, native async support, and fr...

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Zensical - a modern static site generator

If you've built documentation in the Python ecosystem, chances are you've used Martin Donath's work. His Material for MKDocs powers docs for FastAPI, uv, AWS, OpenAI, and tens of thousands of other pr...

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Use Chameleon templates in the Robyn web framework

Introducing chameleon-robyn, a Python package that adds Chameleon template support to the Rust-backed Robyn web framework as an alternative to Jinja.

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Monty - Python in Rust for AI

When LLMs write code to accomplish a task, that code has to actually run somewhere. And right now, the options aren't great. Spin up a sandboxed container and you're paying a full second of cold start...

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Fire and forget (or never) with Python’s asyncio

Python's asyncio.create_task() can silently garbage collect fire-and-forget tasks in 3.12+. Learn the background_tasks set pattern to fix it.

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What hyper-personal software looks like

Agentic AI is enabling an explosion of personal software no one will ever see. I built a browser extension in 15 minutes just for me, and that's the point.

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Commands, out of the terminal

News and announcements from the Python community for the week of Feb 9th, 2026

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Tallyman

Tallyman is a CLI tool that categorizes and analyzes codebases by language and file type, revealing the shape of your project.

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Fly inside FastAPI Cloud

You've built your FastAPI app, it's running great locally, and now you want to share it with the world. But then reality hits -- containers, load balancers, HTTPS certificates, cloud consoles with 200...

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Education Summit

PyCon US 2026

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GitHub - mikeckennedy/tallyman: A command-line tool that summarizes the size of a codebase by language, showing lines of code with and without comments and blank lines.

A command-line tool that summarizes the size of a codebase by language, showing lines of code with and without comments and blank lines. - mikeckennedy/tallyman

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It's not vibe coding: Agentic engineering

AI does the implementation, humans own the architecture and quality. Here's why the distinction matters.

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Command Book - Manage Long-Running Terminal Commands

Command Book is a native macOS app for managing long-running terminal commands. Save, run, and monitor your web servers, databases, and background processes. Never lose your terminal setup again. Free...

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PyView: Real-time Python Web Apps

Building on the web is like working with the perfect clay. It’s malleable and can become almost anything. But too often, frameworks try to hide the web’s best parts away from us. Today, we’re looking ...

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Blocking AI crawlers might be a bad idea

Instead of blocking AI crawlers out of frustration, content creators should embrace deep AI integrations to ensure accurate recommendations and better user experiences. Disappearing from AI results wo...

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Episode #280: Considering Fast and Slow in Python Programming – The Real Python Podcast

How often have you heard about the speed of Python? What's actually being measured, where are the bottlenecks---development time or run time---and which matters more for productivity? Christopher…

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MCP API Documentation - Talk Python To Me Podcast

Talk Python to Me is a weekly podcast hosted by developer and entrepreneur Michael Kennedy. Our interviews dive deep into the popular packages and software developers, data scientists, and incredible ...

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Python Numbers Every Programmer Should Know

A cheat sheet of real-world timing and memory numbers to guide performance-sensitive decisions.

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Python Supply Chain Security Made Easy

Wire pip-audit into your CI and unit tests to automatically block known vulnerable dependencies.

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