#160 - Unpacking Pydantic's Growth and the Launch of Logfire with Samuel Colvin

Join our Pybites Community for free hereWe coach people with their Python, developer and mindset skills, more info here.---This week we have an exciting interview with Pydantic's creator Samuel Colvin. ---NOTE that it's best to watch this episode on YouTube, because Samuel demos Pydantic's new Logfire product as well as a bit of FastUI. 💡 💪 😍---Delving into the origins, Samuel shares with us how Pydantic was conceived to streamline data validation, drawing inspiration from similar tools but quickly exceeding expectations in popularity and adoption. 📈Samuel touches on the monumental speed improvements in version 2, achieved by incorporating Rust, shares insights into the transition of Pydantic into a company and its future vision. We also touch upon front-end development for which he developed another library called FastUI. 😎And last but not least Samuel demos Pydantic's new exciting Logfire product that was just released. 💡 😍Chapters:00:00 Intro Samuel01:57 Win of the week02:23 Pydantic framework and company backstory05:10 FastAPI's part in Pydantic's grow06:20 Adapting to framework dependencies07:50 Making Pydantic faster with Rust12:15 Learning Rust or not as a Python dev14:16 Pydantic as a company15:46 Open source ideas vs business requirements17:20 Introducing Pydantic Logfire19:15 Live demo (YouTube)25:12 Resource / energy measuring with Logfire26:41 Pydantic's vision for the next years 29:46 Doing front-end with FastUI (short demo)31:13 Using FastUI at Pydantic and the team33:56 Pybites ad34:12 FastUI vs Streamlit for fast prototyping36:46 Key skills for Python devs / open source in 202438:10 Work life balance / build things as a customer41:00: Advice for entrepreneurial minded developers42:48 Hobbies / interests outside of work43:26 Podcast recommendation43:50 Wrap up and outroLinks:- Check out Pydantic Logfire here- Reach out to Samuel on X- Pybites Ad segment: The PDM Program---Connect with us on LinkedIn:- Julian- BobAnd to get our weekly developer / mindset emails, sign up here.