uv and Coiled for easy Python scripts on the cloud

Jun 30, 2025 3 min read James Bourbeau The Python packaging world is (being generous) … vast. One of the more delightful recent developments is uv , a fast Python package and environment manager. uv has the features you’d expect from a Python package manager (project-specific environments, lock files, etc.), but the core reasons folks like uv so much is that it’s easy to use and really, really fast .