Presentation Night @ Yelp

Yes! we are nearly there. Python 2.7 will not be maintained past 2020! so, what are you going to do about it? Join us for an evening of knowledge sharing, networking, food/beverages, and best practices to make your Python 3 migration as smooth as possible.

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On the second Wed of each month, join ~180 devs at SF Python's presentation night.

Our generous sponsor Yelp will also provide pizza and drinks for this evening.

PROGRAM

Lightning talks

• "Open Learning" - Rachana Katkam
• Could Be You!

Please submit your talk ideas here 👉 https://bit.ly/sfpythoncfp Does your submission need some eyes before you submit it? 👀or would you like some help in crafting your abstract? 👉 contact Daniel Pyrathon (from the guest list)!

Short talk(~10 mins + Q&A)

1) How do you know if this job will fit you? Avoid MISMATCH! - Walter Lee

Tips and Tricks from our very own Walter Lee on how to avoid choosing the wrong job once you have a set of offers.

Author Bio

Walter is an Oracle Marketing cloud operation and a great member of the SF Python community

2) Make the Most of It: Negotiation and Self-Advocacy - Lusen Mendel

Everyone deserves to make the most of their career opportunities, but it can be difficult to ask for a raise or negotiate an offer. This talk will not only inspire you to stop holding back from advocating for yourself, but also give you a concrete mental model and specific statements you can use to build healthy employment relationships with recruiters and managers.

Author Bio

Lusen Mendel is a Director of Developer Relations at Karat; Interview & Negotiation Coach at DangoorMendel

3) Programming at any Scale with Ray - Robert Nishihara

Ray is an open source framework for parallel and distributed Python that makes it easy to program at any scale (from your laptop to the datacenter) by providing easy-to-use, general-purpose, and high-performance primitives. In addition, we are building a rich ecosystem of libraries (for reinforcement learning, hyperparameter search, experiment management, machine learning training, prediction serving, and more) on top of the core distributed system so that users can rapidly build sophisticated applications.

This talk will describe how to use Ray scale up Python applications using Ray's task and actor abstractions. It will elaborate on some of the key architectural and design decisions that enable Ray's high performance and fault tolerance, and it will discuss some of the lessons learned from our development so far as well as future plans."

Author Bio

Robert is interested in applied math, machine learning, and optimization, and is currently a member of the Statistical AI Lab, the AMPLab/RISELab, and the Berkeley AI Research Lab at UC Berkeley.

Main talk (30 mins)

4) Surviving the Py-ocalpyse: Moving Your Tests from Python 2 to Python 3 - Josh Grant

The end is near. More succinctly, the end of Python 2.7 is near! Is your test code ready for Python 3 compatibility? Josh Grant, Sauce Labs Solutions Architect and Pythonista, has you covered. Py-ocalpyse begins on January 1, 2020 with the EOL of Python 2.7 and the official end of Python 2. Python 3 will become the most current major version available. Despite Python 3 being around for over a decade, many teams have not adopted Python 3 mainly because of some breaking changes between the major versions available. Luckily, Josh will be here to help you survive the upcoming Py-ocalpyse.

Author Bio

Josh Grant is a Solution Architect at Sauce Labs. He’s been with Sauce since 2018 and been working in test automation since 2010. He’s worked on building Selenium-based test frameworks in Java and Protractor, API test frameworks in Python and CI systems with Jenkins. As a Solution Architect at Sauce Labs, he’s helped customers big and small with their test frameworks and test approaches in a variety of languages and settings. He’s also into big ideas and beautiful food. He’s based in Toronto, but enjoys traveling wherever the moment takes him.

AGENDA

6:00p - Check-in and mingle, with food provided by our generous sponsor!

7:05p - Welcome

7:30p - Door close

7:10p - Announcements, lightning talks, and main talk

8:15p - More mingling

9:30p - Hard stop

This event is produced by Yelp

SF Python, a volunteer-run organization aiming to foster the Python Community in the Bay Area. Please check out their flagship event, PyBay2019, and consider attending the 5th Annual Regional Python Conference in SF August 2020.

Yelp sees 89 million mobile users and 79 million desktop users every month. Keeping everything running smoothly requires the best and brightest in the industry. Their engineers come from diverse technical backgrounds and value digital craftsmanship, open-source, and creative problem-solving. They write tests, review code, and push multiple times a day. Come out and talk to them.