Join our Pybites Community for free here We coach people with their Python, developer and mindset skills, more info here . --- This week we have an exciting interview with Pydantic's creator Samuel Colvin . --- NOTE that it's best to watch this episode on YouTube , because Samuel demos Pydantic's new Logfire product as well as a bit of FastUI. 💡 💪 😍 --- Delving into the origins, Samuel shares with us how Pydantic was conceived to streamline data validation, drawing inspiration from similar tools but quickly exceeding expectations in popularity and adoption. 📈 Samuel touches on the monumental speed improvements in version 2, achieved by incorporating Rust, shares insights into the transition of Pydantic into a company and its future vision. We also touch upon front-end development for which he developed another library called FastUI. 😎 And last but not least Samuel demos Pydantic's new exciting Logfire product that was just released. 💡 😍 Chapters: 00:00 Intro Samuel 01:57 Win of the week 02:23 Pydantic framework and company backstory 05:10 FastAPI's part in Pydantic's grow 06:20 Adapting to framework dependencies 07:50 Making Pydantic faster with Rust 12:15 Learning Rust or not as a Python dev 14:16 Pydantic as a company 15:46 Open source ideas vs business requirements 17:20 Introducing Pydantic Logfire 19:15 Live demo (YouTube) 25:12 Resource / energy measuring with Logfire 26:41 Pydantic's vision for the next years 29:46 Doing front-end with FastUI (short demo) 31:13 Using FastUI at Pydantic and the team 33:56 Pybites ad 34:12 FastUI vs Streamlit for fast prototyping 36:46 Key skills for Python devs / open source in 2024 38:10 Work life balance / build things as a customer 41:00: Advice for entrepreneurial minded developers 42:48 Hobbies / interests outside of work 43:26 Podcast recommendation 43:50 Wrap up and outro Links: - Check out Pydantic Logfire here - Reach out to Samuel on X - Pybites Ad segment: The PDM Program --- Connect with us on LinkedIn: - Julian - Bob And to get our weekly developer / mindset emails, sign up here .
