This week Robin Beer – one of our coaches – interviews Will Raphaelson, Principal Product Manager at Prefect. ๐Ÿ˜

They talk about his use of Python, Prefect as a tool and its philosophy, open source + business and Marvin AI. ๐Ÿ ๐Ÿ’ช

And of course they share cool wins and books they are reading. ๐Ÿ’ก

All in all an insightful chat that hopefully will leave you inspired to go check out these cool new Python tools … ๐Ÿ˜Ž

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Chapters:
00:00 Intro snippet
00:11 Intro music
00:31 Introduction guests + topics
01:32 Welcome Will, do you have a win of the week?
04:12 Go to meet ups
04:37 How do you leverage Python as a product manager?
07:12 Python as a quick prototyping language
08:14 What is Prefect and its philosophy?
10:56 Robin’s experience with Prefect
12:26 How has Prefect evolved over time?
15:54 Orchestrators and observability
18:02 A practical example of an orchestrated flow
21:21 How Prefect handles failures in a flow?
23:24 Open source and business, how to combine them?
27:45 Tips for starting a open source business?
31:05 Rationale vs emotion in making product decisions
34:12 Marvin AI and its relation with Prefect
38:01 Marvin AI is a nice way to start with Python
40:16 Recommended books
43:02 Wrap up
43:55 Outro music

Connect with Will on LinkedIn.

Prefect product links:
– Prefect
– Marvin AI

Mentioned article:
– 28 Dags Later by Stephen Bailey

Books mentioned:
– The Precipice
– Fundamentals of Data Engineering by Joe Reis