#60: Don't dismiss SQLite as just a starter DB

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Brian #1: Who's at nine?

• Organic Idiocy
• Inspired by Michael talking about programming Alexa in episode 33
  • Twitter thread
• Using
  • Flask-Ask for Alexa
  • Flask-Assistant for Google Home
• Talk Python 146 is all about Flask Ask and Assistant this week. ;)

Michael #2: Retiring Python as a teaching language

• Why did he write this?
  • Then one day a student will innocently ask "Instead of running the poker simulator from the command line, how can I put it in a window with a button to deal the next hand?"
• The ensuing Twitter conversation was very interesting. Scroll this status, it’s pretty comprehensive https://twitter.com/mkennedy/status/949688651058835456

Brian #3: Don't dismiss SQLite as just a starter DB

• SQLite is a single file db that comes with Python.
• A listener pointed us to a couple cool things about SQLite
• A great interview with the developer The Changelog, episode 201.
• It's extensive documentation on how SQLite is tested.
• Of course, for web applications and other applications that have to deal with extreme concurrency, you need a client server database
• Many applications don't have extreme concurrency needs.
• Sticking with SQLite might be just fine for quite a long time for many apps.

Michael #4: Chalice: Python Serverless Microframework for AWS

• Chalice is a python serverless microframework for AWS. It allows you to quickly create and deploy applications that use Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda.
• It provides:
  • A command line tool for creating, deploying, and managing your app
  • A familiar and easy to use API for declaring views in python code (Flask)
  • Automatic IAM policy generation
• Compare to Zappa: https://github.com/Miserlou/Zappa

Brian #5: Fastest way to uniquely a list in Python >=3.6

• Nice analysis of different ways to uniquify a list.
• Punchline:
  • The fastest way to uniqify a list of hashable objects (basically immutable things) is: list(set(seq))
  • And the fastest way, if the order is important is: list(dict.fromkeys(seq))

Michael #6: PyTexas and PyCon AU vidoes are up

• PyTexas
  • Notable PyTexas videos
    • Micropython
    • What is ML?
    • C for yourself
    • Python and .NET
• PyCon AU
  • Notable PyCon AU videos
    • Gradual typing
    • Hot reloading Python web-servers at scale
    • Prototyping Python Microservices in Production
    • Secrets of a WSGI master.
    • Python 3 for People Who Haven't Been Paying Attention
    • Identity 2.0: the what, why and how of social and federated login
    • Python: Ludicrous mode (with Django)
    • Scaling Down: Running Large Sites Locally

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