Bhavani Ravi's Blog

Met the SerpApi dev advocate at PyCon US and went down a rabbit hole.

From vipassana silence to PyCon US chaos — teaching a sold-out Airflow workshop, fangirling Python educators, managing the PyLadies booth, and finding my identity as a teacher.

From gym freak to certified yoga teacher.

No phone, no dinner, and noble silence, those are the things people warn you about before your Vipassana retreat.

How chatbot architecture evolved from training every possible user input to systems that reason, call tools, and coordinate multiple agents.

Claude Code Opens doors to unknown tech stacks

I made art without worrying about the outcome

I attempted to reduce my screen time to under an hour a day for a month, and discovered the surprising truth about my digital habits

I gave up coffee for 31 days and here's how it went

Retrieval Augmented Generation - Yet another acronym the ML researchers have slapped onto something so simple.

I want to build a side project but

Decorators are the way to give super powers to your Python functions.

Businesses produce and accumulate data.

Protect your FastAPI API with authentication, compliation of methods that will and won't work

Learn how to handle background task exceptions and global errors in FastAPI using custom middleware and Starlette exception hooks.

As Pythonistas, we all love Pytest.

Pydantic is a Python library for data validation and settings management using Python-type hinting.

Businesses produce and accumulate data.

It's not working.

By Building and hosting a full stack application

What does / and * mean in a Python function definition mean

Not a big fan of minikube?

We should preach something more

Wondering why you're always distracted when using a specific app?

With Apache-Airflow's AWS providers S3 operations are a cake-walk.

There are variety of ways to authenticate yourself with IAM Roles are one of the most commonly used.

Generators and Iterators are Python constructs that lets you loop through data in chunks instead of loading them into memory.

Python snippets use __name__ == "__main__" checks to ensure that the module-specific code is ran only when they are run directly via Python.

ORM in flask a quick start tutorial

What is MLOps?

How to setup airflow for local development, errors you might face and how to work around them?

Brainstorming: The Good, Bad and Ugly

5 symptoms that I had when I was buring out

Internet keeps throwing this advice of "Build projects" to beginners, but "what?"

How are you so productive?

Secrets and token stored as Python config or secrets file has a chance of being exposed via pyc files when commited to GitHub repository

Airflow had many AWS providers that weren't following the latest conventions.

Your code moves faster than the digrams you created for the documentation.

Caching, is a concept that was gifted to software world from the hardware world, A temporary storage for fast and easy access of data.