PhillyPUG January 2013 Meetup - Flask vs Django, Async Processing, and More

Hi All,

We are going to kick off our 2013 technical talks with a series of three talks delivered by the developers of 50 on Red. Here is our agenda:

6:30 PM - 7:30 PM: Food, networking, a word from our sponsor (50 on Red)

7:30 PM - 8:00 PM: Technical talks by 50 on Red

8:00 PM - 8:30 PM: Lightning talks (open to anyone)

8:30 PM: Leave for social / happy hour

Here is a rough outline of the technical talks:

Flask vs. Django

• Show a simple website built using Flask and compare that same website built with Django

• Talk about design pattern differences and how the frameworks either get involved or stay out of your way

Application Dispatching and Async Processing using Flask and RQ

• Creating multiple application contexts in Flask using middleware

• Executing tasks asynchronously using RQ

• Talk about other ways code can be exectued in parallel (threads, multiprocessing, gevent)

Python and Why It Didn't Work for Us

• Dealing with very large data structures in memory

• Handling thousands of concurrent connections efficiently

• Sharing memory between threads and processes

I hope everyone has a happy and safe holiday. I look forward to seeing you all on January 8'th.

All the best,

Tom