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Talk Python To Me

#105: A Pythonic Database Tour

Talk Python To Me

Michael Kennedy

Technology

4.8635 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2017

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

There are many reasons it's a great time to be a developer. One of them is because there are so many choices around data access and databases. So this week we take tour with our guest Jim Fulton of some databases you may not have heard of or given a try.

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0:00.0

There are many reasons it's a great time to be a developer.

0:02.9

One of them is because there are so many choices around data access and databases.

0:06.9

So this week, we take a tour with our guest, Jim Fulton, of some of the databases you may not have heard of or haven't given a try yet.

0:15.6

You'll hear about the pure Python database, ZODB.

0:18.9

There's zero dB, an end-to-end encrypted database in which the database knows nothing about the data

0:24.4

that's even storing, and NewtDB spanning the world of ZODB and JSON-friendly Postgres.

0:31.3

This is Talk Python to Me, episode 105, recorded Thursday, March 16th, 2017.

0:40.4

I'm a developer, developers, developers, developers. I'm a developer in many senses of the word, because I make these applications, but I also use these verbs to make this music.

0:48.0

I constructed line by line, just like when I'm coding another software design.

0:52.6

In both cases, it's about design patterns.

0:55.7

Anyone can get the job done.

0:57.1

It's the execution that matters.

0:58.8

I have many interests.

1:00.6

Sometimes you can flip.

1:01.0

Welcome to Talk Python to Me, a weekly podcast on Python, the language, the libraries, the ecosystem, and the personalities.

1:08.3

This is your host, Michael Kennedy.

1:09.8

Follow me on Twitter where I'm at

1:11.1

M. Kennedy. Keep up with the show and listen to past episodes at talk python.fm and follow the show

1:16.5

on Twitter via at talk python. This episode is brought to you interruption free by GetStream.

1:23.3

That's right, getStream, a new sponsor of the show, has a really cool offer for you guys.

1:28.0

If you're building an application that has some form of activity stream like you might see in Slack or Facebook or Instagram and others,

1:33.9

then you owe it to yourself to have a look at GetStream.

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