Topics

• Life Without pip install
  By: Aly Sivji
  Experience Level: Novice
  Length: 10 Minutes
  Description:

  In this lightning talk, I will demonstrate how to import packages that have not been installed in a virtual environment.

• Automating Large-Scale CD Archiving with Python, Docker, and Observability
  By: Max McCann
  Experience Level: Intermediate
  Length: 30 Minutes
  Description:

  Ripping and archiving thousands of music CDs for personal use can be a daunting task—especially when you care about safety, automation, and system reliability. In this talk, I’ll share how I built a secure workflow using Python, shell scripts, and Docker to ingest and organize a large CD collection into a Plex server. I’ll demo the Nimbie disc autoloader (“the hopper”), explain how containerization helps isolate untrusted media, and show how I monitor throughput and reliability using Datadog metrics. This session focuses on the technical challenges of automation, security, and observability in large-scale media archiving.