ChiPy __Main__ Meeting

When: April 11, 2013, 7 p.m.

Where: Threadless

Attendance:

Topics

  • SXSW Interactive 2013
    By: Adam Forsyth
    Length: 15 Minutes
    Description: - Themes - Keynotes - Chicago Tech @ SXSW - Other Highlights - Q&A
  • Concurrency in Python and other Languages
    By: Daniel Griffin
    Length: 25 Minutes
    Description: - 1 minute pitch about OpDemand and what we do. - Processing HTTP requests with Twisted. - Dealing with blocking code in Twisted (couchdb-python and pika). - Doing long running work with Celery from Twisted. - Communicating between web workers with ZMQ. - Writing code that can be concurrent.
  • Threadless Loves Python
    By: Mike Steder
    Description: In the last year the Threadless engineering department has almost completely changed from PHP and MySQL to Python and MongoDB. I would like to do a brief overview of how we use Python today which will cover our replatformed website, our API, and our internal message queuing system.