Presentation and Q & A: SQL Alchemy In-Depth with Michael Bayer

The SQLAlchemy Session - In Depth

A detailed walkthrough of SQLAlchemy's Session, describing the rationale for its existence, its driving philosophies, and finally a walkthrough of Session lifecycle through the use of an animated diagram. We'll cover how the relational database refers to database rows within a transaction, and how the Session has over the years developed a tight, proxied integration with this lifecycle.

Mike Bayer

Michael Bayer is the creator of several prominent Python libraries including SQLAlchemy, Mako Templates for Python, Alembic, and dogpile.cache. He has been working with open source software and databases since the mid-1990s. Today he's active in the Python community, working to spread good software practices to an ever wider audience. Mike is a semi-regular presenter at Pycon US and has also spoken at many smaller events and conferences in the US and Europe. Follow Mike on Twitter at @zzzeek.