Talks

Inline with the Corona pandemic, I gave my first online conference talk! The Airflow Summit 2020 was wonderfully organized and I must say I liked the ability to participate in a conference without leaving home. Giving a talk to a computer is a very different experience then giving it live, a lot less interaction with the audience but on the plus side, it’s much less stressful as well. At Bluevine we use Airflow to drive our ML platform. In the talk, I presented the challenges and gains we had at transitioning from a single server running Python scripts with cron to a full blown Airflow setup. Some of the points that I’ve covered are: ...

Learning from Kenneth Reitz’s Requests When writing a package (library), providing it with a good API, is almost as important as its functionality itself (well, at least if you want some adoption), but what makes a good API? In this post, I’ll try to provide some insights on that question by comparing Requests and Urllib (part of Python’s standard library) in a few typical HTTP usage scenarios and see why Requests has become the de facto standard among Python users. ...

Hi all, At the last PyWebIL meetup I took the stand and gave a talk about one a very interesting open-source project - Kong. Kong is an API and microservices management layer that serves as a reverse proxy to your API’s while taking care of generic actions such as rate-limiting, authentication, monitoring and much more. One of it’s key benefits is that it is very plugable, hence it is easy to add your own custom logic (I actually enhanced a plugin to fit my needs). ...

In the last Pyweb-IL meetup I gave a short introduction talk about coroutines and their usage in Python. It covers the basic concepts of coroutines and how they can be used in Python. Check it out!