Past Meetups¶

Records of all our past meetups with recordings, links, slides, etc.

July 2025 Meetup

Keeping with tradition, we hosted our 2^nd July Lightning Talks meetup. We had three speakers present, all on amazing topics.

Piper shares her experience of building an open source project in public for over a decade and the lessons she's learned.

Akshay shared with us his inspiring project, combining AI and DevOps into a chatbot to help address real world production issues.

Pavan joined us to talk about the love/hate relationship with the GIL, and how to get around it with multiprocessing.

With all these animals it may as well be a circus. Sourav talked about Pandas and FireDucks!

It's not just a healthy snack, it's also an asynchronous task queue. Dishant talked about Celery and the unique challenges of running it at scale.

It's a Flow Chart! It's a UML Diagram! No, it's Josh! Josh talked about the importance of diagrams in communicating your ideas!

Is it chilly in here? Jonathan Scofield presented on Polars and its benefit over Pandas when dealing with larger-than-memory datasets.

You got your .NET in my Python! Lawrence Allan Jones presented on using .NET and Python together to perform integration testing.

Tired of your secrets getting committed to GitHub? Never fear! Marcelo talked about finding secrets in your code using n0s1!