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

Pybites Podcast

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 snippet
00:11 Intro music
00:31 Introduction guests + topics
01:32 Welcome Will, do you have a win of the week?
04:12 Go to meet ups
04:37 How do you leverage Python as a product manager?
07:12 Python as a quick prototyping language
08:14 What is Prefect and its philosophy?
10:56 Robin's experience with Prefect
12:26 How has Prefect evolved over time?
15:54 Orchestrators and observability
18:02 A practical example of an orchestrated flow
21:21 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 decisions
34:12 Marvin AI and its relation with Prefect
38:01 Marvin AI is a nice way to start with Python
40:16 Recommended books
43:02 Wrap up
43:55 Outro music
Connect with Will on LinkedIn.
Prefect product links:
- Prefect
- Marvin AI
Mentioned article:
- 28 Dags Later by Stephen Bailey
Books mentioned:
- The Precipice
- Fundamentals of Data Engineering by Joe Reis