6:30 PM : Doors open

GeoPandas, the geospatial extension for Pandas

Featuring Gareth Lloyd

This talk explores the power of spatial data, with an application based on John Snow's 1854 Cholera map. The famous map has many myths surrounding it, and I ask what John Snow could have done differently with modern GIS technology.

Making 100 million requests with Python aiohttp

Featuring Andy Balaam

Andy will talk about how to make Python truly asynchronous with aiohttp and have some fun seeing how hard you can push it

Event Sourcing 101

Featuring Bob Gregory

Eventsourcing is a powerful technique for building complex domain models, but it can be hard to know how to get started. In this introductory talk, we'll build an event-sourced domain model from scratch. Check it out!

Quart; a asyncio alternative to Flask

Featuring Philip Jones

Flask is a great web mirco-framework, that is best utilised with event-loop concurrency. Sadly with Flask the event-loop framework can't be asyncio, although some extensions (Flask-Aiohttp) have tried. Quart is the solution as it shares the Flask API and is based on asyncio. In addition Quart...

A Few Things to Remember About Python

Featuring Patrick Morris

Two things I have come across in the past week at work that I thought were good points to bring up with people and remind them of the tools that you have available with Python (remember it is batteries included!)

Python Inside Your Database

Featuring Simon Riggs

PostgreSQL allows you to write stored functions and procedures in many languages, including Python. New facilities will be available in PostgreSQL 11, so this is a good time for a wide ranging discussion around this.

Humanising Among Coders

Featuring Ana Balica

What makes a good developer? Certainly technical expertise, insightfulness, creativity, thoughtfulness. What about daily social interactions with other developers inside the company and community? Those are never easy. Even though we all try to be nice to each other, sometimes unintentionally we...

Intro to Testing in Python

Featuring Tomasz Kluczkowski

Unit testing is the foundation of stable and robust code and guards against unforseen consequences of changes, yet the subject is dreaded by most new programmers. It is though unavoidable in the professional environment and learning it early in your programming journey can only be beneficial.

Kubernetes and Python

Featuring Charlotte Godley

We are very lucky to have Charlotte Godley talk about how Kubernetes can help with Python and how Python can help with Kubernetes! Don't miss it!