#540: Modern Python monorepo with uv and prek

About this episode

The episode explores the management of a large Python monorepo using Apache Airflow and modern packaging standards.

Monorepos -- you've heard the talks, you've read the blog posts, maybe you've seen a few tantalizing glimpses into how Google or Meta organize their massive codebases. But it's often in the abstract and behind closed doors. What if you could crack open a real, production monorepo, one with over a million lines of Python and over 100 of sub-packages, and actually see how it's built, step by step, using modern tools and standards? That's exactly what Apache Airflow gives us. On this episode, I sit down with Jarek Potiuk and Amogh Desai, two of Airflow's top contributors, to go inside one of the largest open-source Python monorepos in the world and learn how they manage it with uv, pyproject.toml, and the latest packaging standards, so you can apply those same patterns to your own projects.

People in this episode

Host: Michael Kennedy

Guests: Jarek Potiuk, Amogh Desai

Topics covered

• monorepo
• Python
• Apache Airflow
• packaging standards
• software development

Keywords

• monorepo
• Python
• Apache Airflow
• uv
• pyproject.toml
• packaging standards
• software engineering

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Apache Airflow, Google, Meta

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