Episode
Reinventing the Python Notebook with Akshay Agrawal
Software Engineering Daily · Mar 10, 2026 · 46 min
Interactive notebooks were popularized by the Jupyter project and have since become a core tool for data science, research, and data exploration. However, traditional, imperative notebooks often break down as projects grow more complex. Hidden state, non-reproducible execution, poor version control ergonomics, and difficulty reusing notebook code in real software systems make it hard to move…