It’s January! If you look back at yourself from exactly one year ago, January 2025, how different are you as a developer from then to now? Did you ship the app you were thinking about? Did you finally learn how to configure a proper CI/CD pipeline? Did you land the Senior role you were after?… Continue reading 7 Software Engineering Fixes To Advance As A Developer
7 Software Engineering Fixes To Advance As A Developer
By Julian Sequeira on 29 January 2026
The missing 66% of your skillset
By Julian Sequeira on 27 January 2026
Bob and I have spent many years as Python devs, and 6 years coaching with Pybites and we can safely say that being a Senior Developer is only about 1/3 Python knowledge. The other 60% is the ecosystem. It’s the tooling. It’s all of the tech around Python that makes you stand out from the rest. This is… Continue reading The missing 66% of your skillset
“I’m worried about layoffs”
By Julian Sequeira on 20 January 2026
I’ve had some challenging conversations this week. Lately, my calendar has been filled with calls from developers reaching out for advice because layoffs were just announced at their company. Having been in their shoes myself, I could really empathise with their anxiety. The thing is though, when we’d dig into why there was such anxiety, a common… Continue reading “I’m worried about layoffs”
From SQL to SQLModel: A Cleaner Way to Work with Databases in Python
By Ahmed Lemine on 11 July 2025
SQLModel is a library that lets you interact with databases through Python code with Python objects and type annotations instead of writing direct SQL queries. Created by the same author of the extremely popular framework FastAPI, it aims to make interacting with SQL DBs in Python easier and elegant, with data validation and IDE support,… Continue reading From SQL to SQLModel: A Cleaner Way to Work with Databases in Python
From Backend to Frontend: Connecting FastAPI and Streamlit
By Zach Merrill on 29 April 2025
In my previous Pybites article, I showed how I built and deployed a book tracking API using FastAPI, Docker, and Fly.io. That project taught me a lot about backend development, containers, and deploying modern APIs. But a backend alone isn’t enough—users need an interface. And FastAPI’s Swagger UI, while useful for testing, just isn’t user-friendly… Continue reading From Backend to Frontend: Connecting FastAPI and Streamlit
Try an AI Speed Run For Your Next Side Project
By feoh on 31 March 2025
The Problem I have for as long as I can remember had a bit of a problem with analysis paralysis and tunnel vision. If I’m working on a problem and get stuck, I have a tendency to just sit there paging through code trying to understand where to go next. It’s a very unproductive habit… Continue reading Try an AI Speed Run For Your Next Side Project
Case Study: Developing and Testing Python Packages with uv
By Michael Aydinbas on 24 March 2025
Structuring Python projects properly, especially when developing packages, can often be confusing. Many developers struggle with common questions: To help clarify these common challenges, I’ll show how I typically set up Python projects and organise package structures using the Python package and environment manager, uv. The challenge A typical and recurring problem in Python is… Continue reading Case Study: Developing and Testing Python Packages with uv
Optimizing Python: Understanding Generator Mechanics, Expressions, and Efficiency
By Josh Engroff on 20 March 2025
Python generators provide an elegant mechanism for handling iteration, particularly for large datasets where traditional approaches may be memory-intensive. Unlike standard functions that compute and return all values at once, generators produce values on demand through the yield statement, enabling efficient memory usage and creating new possibilities for data processing workflows. Generator Function Mechanics At… Continue reading Optimizing Python: Understanding Generator Mechanics, Expressions, and Efficiency
FastAPI Deployment Made Easy with Docker and Fly.io
By Zach Merrill on 18 March 2025
For the PDM program I worked on a FastAPI project to track books using the Google Book API and also provide AI powered recommendations using Marvin AI. As the project came closer to deployment, I knew that I wanted to try out containerization for a reliable and repeatable way to deploy. I chose Docker due… Continue reading FastAPI Deployment Made Easy with Docker and Fly.io
NLP Made Easy: How We Prioritize Exercise Improvements with a Few Lines of Code
By Bob Belderbos on 20 February 2025
We highly appreciate user feedback for continuous improvement. With hundreds of Bite exercises and thousands of reviews, it’s easy to get overwhelmed by the data. 😱 How do you uncover insights from this sea of feedback? Use code! 😎 Enter TextBlob, a Python library that abstracts away the complexities of Natural Language Processing (NLP). This… Continue reading NLP Made Easy: How We Prioritize Exercise Improvements with a Few Lines of Code
