SF Python Courses

No, Seriously, Why Don't We Use Better Testing Tools

Explore why powerful testing tools like property-based testing and coverage-guided fuzzing remain underused, and discover practical solutions to make advanced testing accessible.

• YouTube
• 28 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Events are the Wrong Abstraction

Discover why event-driven architecture may not be the best solution and explore alternative patterns that provide connectivity benefits without the typical complexities.

• YouTube
• 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

AI, IP, and Your Code - What Developers Need to Know

Understand the legal complexities of AI-generated code ownership, IP rights, and how AI companies use open-source code as training data in this essential developer guide.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The Zen of the Bronze Layer - Ingestion of Data with Unstable Schema

Master bronze layer data ingestion techniques for handling unstable schemas using native Python structures instead of pandas for more reliable raw data processing.

• YouTube
• 28 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Do It Yourself - Demystifying the Magic of Dataclasses

Unlock the inner workings of Python's dataclasses module by building key features yourself and exploring advanced techniques used under the hood for complex programs.

• YouTube
• 31 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Scaling Open Source Up and Down

Discover how to adapt open source project management strategies across different scales, from small personal projects to libraries downloaded millions of times monthly.

• YouTube
• 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Guardrails - An Alternative View of Safely Working in Python

Explore Python's design philosophy around safety guardrails and how the language evolved to protect developers from dangerous features while maintaining flexibility.

• YouTube
• 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Context Managers

Explore Python's context managers, their 20-year evolution since PEP 343, practical applications, and integration with contextvars in this entertaining PyBay talk.

• YouTube
• 25 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Python in Resilient Network Infrastructure Automation to Validation

Explore Python's role in building resilient network automation and testing frameworks using Netmiko, Nornir, pyATS, and pytest for robust, maintainable systems.

• YouTube
• 28 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Visualizing Large Graphs and AI Embeddings with Ease

Discover Cosmograph, a high-performance web framework for creating interactive graph visualizations directly from Python notebooks, handling millions of points with GPU acceleration.

• YouTube
• 29 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Beyond the Black Box - Interpreting ML Models with SHAP

Discover how SHAP uses game theory to interpret ML model predictions, making black box algorithms explainable through feature importance attribution and practical case studies.

• YouTube
• 31 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Out of the Frying Pan Into the Fire - Multiprocessed Code to Free Threading

Discover how to transition from multiprocessing to free-threaded Python, exploring performance improvements and new challenges in concurrent programming.

• YouTube
• 32 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Structured RAG is Better than RAG - An Improvement for AI Memory and Question Answering

Discover how Structured RAG improves upon traditional RAG for faster, better AI question-answering over large text/image collections, with demos and Python library insights.

• YouTube
• 37 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The Long Hello World

Dive into Python's "Hello World" to explore the interpreter, C libraries, Linux kernel, and computer abstractions for better debugging and development insights.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Just Because AI Can Write Your Tests - Should It?

Explore when AI-generated tests fall short and discover how writing your own tests creates more robust, meaningful coverage for better Python development.

• YouTube
• 29 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video