Packaging and Flowy

Last minute meetup ... also available on Google Hangouts (https://plus.google.com/events/csng4e66ka0eua9sumhjtrcsmek)

Agenda:

6:00 - Entrance 6:15 - Less known packaging features and tricks

You’ve been making packages for a while now. Everything
works almost fine, however, lots of new features and tools
have been developed recently. Some are really obscure. And
there’s a chance they can save you time and help you avoid
packaging-induced-pain. I’m willing to bet couple of beers
you haven’t seen these features and/or tools before.
This talk is going to show you:

• Patterns and tricks you can use in your setup.py.
• Obscure pip/setuptools/virtualenv/python features
  you can use to improve your packaging experience (be
  it as a user of packages or a package author).
• Fledgeling alternative tools.

Details (https://ep2015.europython.eu/conference/talks/less-known-packaging-features-and-tricks)

7:00 - Break

7:15 - Distributed Workflows with Flowy

This presentation introduces Flowy, a library for building
and running distributed, asynchronous workflows built on top
of different backends (such as Amazon’s SWF). Flowy deals
away with the spaghetti code that often crops up from
orchestrating complex workflows. It is ideal for
applications that do multi-phased batch processing, media
encoding, long-running tasks, and/or background processing.
We’ll start by discussing Flowy’s unique execution model and
see how different execution topologies can be implemented on
top of it. During the talk we’ll run and visualize workflows
using a local backend. We’ll then take a look at what it
takes to scale beyond a single machine by using an external
service like SWF.

Details (https://ep2015.europython.eu/conference/talks/distributed-workflows-with-flowy)