ChiPy November __main__ Meeting: Python Powered Business


How does your business use Python? At this meeting, we'll hear from different companies to see how they use Python in real-world applications. Each company will give a 10 minute talk about their use-case.

When: Nov. 11, 2021, 6 p.m.

Where: Remote Meeting

Attendance:
Virtual Pythonistas: 0

Topics


  • Python at JFrog
    By: Daniel Keler
    Experience Level: Novice
    Length: 15 Minutes
    Description:

    At JFrog, we are making endless software versions a thing of the past, with liquid software that flows continuously and automatically from build all the way to deployment.  With this in mind, we’ve developed the world’s first universal artifact management platform, ushering in a new era in DevOps – Continuous Updates. Ten years later, with thousands of customers, and millions of users globally, JFrog has become the “Database of DevOps” and de-facto standard in release and update management.

    JFrog embraces the Python language for multiple uses cases and technology solutions including provisioning machines, tooling for Pipelines, creating machine learning models, securing Python modules, and even Python-based micro services in the JFrog Platform.

     
  • Python at Zoro
    By: Joe Neylon
    Experience Level: Novice
    Length: 10 Minutes
    Description:

    Zoro is an online distributor of products for B2B customers, focused on helping small businesses easily find what they need to grow and maintain their businesses. Today, we have over eight million products available—and that number is expected to keep growing. We work with third-party suppliers to provide products and fulfill orders for our customers.

    Zoro uses Python with Django for its ecomerce site, as well as for data science, ETLs, and microservices.

  • Python at NuMat Technologies - Hacking for Cleaner Air
    By: Patrick Fuller
    Experience Level: Novice
    Length: 15 Minutes
    Description:

    NuMat Technologies is a team of chemists, chemical engineers, and computer scientists developing advanced materials to remove toxic chemicals and greenhouse gases from air, water, and more.

    Founded by computer scientists and working with a new material class that lends itself well to computational design, NuMat puts computation at the forefront of the business. Whether this is developing automated material design "recommendation engines", building robotics for high-throughput experimentation, or maintaining our in-house enterprise resource planning applications, NuMat's computational team touches every aspect of the company.

    Expect to see async and advanced communication protocols in robotics, Django+SQL with our ERP applications, and HPC management software like Dask and Jupyter in our computational material design.

  • Python at Narrative Science - Telling stories at scale
    By: Santiago Santana
    Experience Level: Novice
    Length: 10 Minutes
    Description:

    Narrative Science is a data storytelling company that has been dynamically writing stories and reports for over a decade

    This talk will go over how we are using Python and its rich ecosystem to move towards a microservices architecture that will create a more scalable and fault tolerant product.

  • Using Python to Accelerate Data Science at Nielsen
    By: Jordan Bettis
    Length: 10 Minutes
    Description:

    Nielsen is a global leader in audience insights, data and analytics, shaping the future of media. Nielsen uses Python to bridge the gap between model development, validation and deployment into production data pipelines to accelerate creation and evolution of analytics products.