#540: Modern Python monorepo with uv and prek

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. Episode sponsors Agentic AI Course Python in Production Talk Python Courses Links from the show Guests Amogh Desai : github.com Jarek's GitHub : github.com definition of a monorepo : monorepo.tools airflow : airflow.apache.org Activity : github.com OpenAI : airflowsummit.org Part 1. Pains of big modular Python projects : medium.com Part 2. Modern Python packaging standards and tools for monorepos : medium.com Part 3. Monorepo on steroids - modular prek hooks : medium.com Part 4. Shared “static” libraries in Airflow monorepo : medium.com PEP-440 : peps.python.org PEP-517 : peps.python.org PEP-518 : peps.python.org PEP-566 : peps.python.org PEP-561 : peps.python.org PEP-660 : peps.python.org PEP-621 : peps.python.org PEP-685 : peps.python.org PEP-723 : peps.python.org PEP-735 : peps.python.org uv : docs.astral.sh uv workspaces : blobs.talkpython.fm prek.j178.dev : prek.j178.dev your presentation at FOSDEM26 : fosdem.org Tallyman : github.com Watch this episode on YouTube : youtube.com Episode deep-dive : talkpython.fm/540 Episode transcripts : talkpython.fm Theme Song: Developer Rap 🥁 Served in a Flask 🎸 : talkpython.fm/flasksong ---== Don't be a stranger ==--- YouTube : youtube.com/@talkpython Bluesky : @talkpython.fm Mastodon : @talkpython@fosstodon.org X.com : @talkpython Michael on Bluesky : @mkennedy.codes Michael on Mastodon : @mkennedy@fosstodon.org Michael on X.com : @mkennedy

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#540: Modern Python monorepo with uv and prek is an episode from Talk Python To Me - Python conversations for passionate developers by Michael Kennedy.

This episode is 62:13 long.

This episode was published on Mar 13, 2026.

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