ML at Farfetch + Web Application Messaging Protocol + Dependency Injection

This month's meetup will be kindly hosted by Farfetch on their Old Street offices. The schedule is as follows:

6:30pm -- Doors open, food and drinks courtesy of Farfetch
7:00pm -- Dr Thomas Furmston - Lead Data Scientist at Farfetch: Machine Learning Meets Online Fashion

Thomas will be discussing some of the machine learning work, including techniques from computer vision and natural language processing, that his team has been doing at Farfetch to understand the fashion market.

7:20pm -- Simon Harrison - Senior Software Engineer: The Web Application Messaging Protocol - The Future Of Python Web Development?

Simon will be describing the WAMP protocol, its benefits versus other microservice management techniques and the different tools in Python for make use of it.

7:40pm -- Yeray Diaz - Senior Software Engineer: Import as an antipattern - Demystifying Dependency Injection in Python

Yeray will be speaking about Dependency Injection, demonstrating the benefits it yields in software design and testability as well as techniques to apply it in modern Python.

8:00pm — Lightning talks and announcements