pycon 2016

This past week I had the opportunity to attend pycon in Portland! All I can say is WOW! What an amazing experience and time! The community is vibrant, diverse, smart, curious, and welcoming.

In many ways the python community reminds me of the SAS community in that it is heavily driven by people from the community on a volunteer basis, which naturally makes sense given its open source nature.

There were many amazing talks on a variety of topics but just wanted to call out the following ones which I really enjoyed and personally got a chance to attend.

REFACTORING PYTHON: WHY AND HOW TO RESTRUCTURE YOUR CODE

Refactoring is super important and is a opportunity to remove technical debt from ones code. Some helpful thoughts and tips in this discussion

PROTOTYPING NEW APIS WITH FLASK

A great primer into flask and using existing plug-ins to build out APIs

BUILD SERVERLESS REALTIME DATA PIPELINES WITH PYTHON AND AWS LAMBDA

A nice look at using AWS lambda to build out data pipelines.

There are a ton more! Make sure you check out the youtube channel!

Just to summarize, If you haven’t been before. Go! Its a great opportunity to meet your peers and learn about different views and ways of doing things.