Property-based testing with hypothesis
(5 Minutes)
By: Heather White
Experience Level: Novice

An overview of property-based testing with hypothesis.

Building Cross-application Search with Python and Elasticsearch
(15 Minutes)
By: Alex Kowalczuk
Experience Level: Intermediate
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Learn how we built cross-application search at Tegus by integrating Tegus content into recently-acquired BamSEC's document search system, using AWS SQS, Elasticsearch, and Python.

Racket
(5 Minutes)
By: Joshua Herman
Experience Level: Novice

Contrasting the Python Programming language to Racket.

 

https://racket-lang.org

SQL
(5 Minutes)
By: Heather White
Experience Level: Novice

SQL is a declarative, recursive language.  For this year's Ultimate Language Shootout, I'm going to talk about how SQL is the best language that's not Python. 

Ultimate Language Shootout: R
(5 Minutes)
By: Natasha Polishchuk
Experience Level: Novice

In keeping with the proposed theme, I'd be happy to introduce R and compare/contrast it to Python. I'd like to talk especially about how well suited R is to Statistics, and how Pandas dataframes were inspired by R dataframes.  I've used both in my career as a data analyst and now data engineer, and initially prefered R though I've come around to the Python side.

Ultimate Language Shootout: Craiyon, a language for generating pictures
(5 Minutes)
By: Phil Robare
Experience Level: Novice

Craiyon.com is a front end for a neural network that takes in free-form text and generates images.  It can be viewed as a "language" that "compiles" to produce a binary that is an image.  This is one future of programming.

When should you rewrite in Rust
(15 Minutes)
By: Adrian Garcia Badaracco
Experience Level: Intermediate

When does it make sense to use Rust? What are the top challanges a Python user will face when trying Rust for the first time?