Anthony Shaw

This week, Michael, Mark and Gladys talk to Anthony Shaw about some of the best practices and tooling for securing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions. Sarah is away in Singapore, presenting at BlackHat.We also cover security news about DDoS, Cosmos DB, Microsoft Defender for APIs, Load Balancer, Zero Trust and discovering Internet-facing devices.

Eric Snow and Anthony Shaw discuss the exciting developments in Python, such as sub-interpreters, Faster CPython, async work, and the adoption of typing. They explore the concept of subinterpreters in Python processes, highlighting the benefits of isolation and enabling concurrency. The discussion also touches on consolidating global state, using sub interpreters as an API for concurrent futures, managing Python processes with sub interpreters, and implementing multi-phase init in extension modules to support sub-interpreters in Python.

This podcast episode delves into CPython internals, book writing, projects at Microsoft, Python's evolving internals, making Python faster, VS Code Pets, and more. The guest shares insights on Python testing tools, challenges in AI projects, creating a popular VS Code extension, and customizing pet appearances in apps.