#133 - Meet Will Raphaelson: From Script to Production Flow With Prefect & Marvin AI

This week Robin Beer - one of our coaches - interviews Will Raphaelson, Principal Product Manager at Prefect. 😍They talk about his use of Python, Prefect as a tool and its philosophy, open source + business and Marvin AI. 🐍 💪And of course they share cool wins and books they are reading. 💡All in all an insightful chat that hopefully will leave you inspired to go check out these cool new Python tools ... 😎Chapters:00:00 Intro snippet00:11 Intro music00:31 Introduction guests + topics01:32 Welcome Will, do you have a win of the week?04:12 Go to meet ups04:37 How do you leverage Python as a product manager?07:12 Python as a quick prototyping language08:14 What is Prefect and its philosophy?10:56 Robin's experience with Prefect12:26 How has Prefect evolved over time?15:54 Orchestrators and observability18:02 A practical example of an orchestrated flow21:21 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 decisions34:12 Marvin AI and its relation with Prefect38:01 Marvin AI is a nice way to start with Python40:16 Recommended books43:02 Wrap up43:55 Outro musicConnect with Will on LinkedIn.Prefect product links:- Prefect- Marvin AIMentioned article:- 28 Dags Later by Stephen BaileyBooks mentioned:- The Precipice- Fundamentals of Data Engineering by Joe Reis