We are happy to announce the fourth instance of the PyAmsterdam meetup. This event will be kindly hosted by Picnic, make sure to check out their meetup group for other events. https://www.meetup.com/Meetinup-Picnic/

We are currently looking for talks and speakers. Preferred topics are: testing, async, serverless, GUI, data visualisation. To submit a talk you can: Create PullRequest at: https://github.com/PyAmsterdam/py-meetups Contact us via meetup.com

In case you would like to share something cool but do, we will also give space for but do not feel like a giving a longer talk, there is also an option for a lightning talk (5 minutes max).

Schedule

Thursday, 26 September 2019

18:00 - 19:00 - Welcome with drinks and food

19:00 - 19:30 - `Talk 1`_ - Data Warehouse Automation in Python
(Dinis Louseiro)

19:30 - 19:35 - Short break

19:35 - 20:05 - `Talk 2`_ - Detecting Outages at Scale (Sander van de Graaf)

19:30 - 19:35 - Short break

20:05 - 20:35 - `Talk 3`_ - Getting started with FPGA with Python (Olga Sentemova)

20:35 - 21:00 - Networking

21:00 - closing time

Data Warehouse Automation in Python

Bio: Dinis Louseiro is a Data Engineer at Picnic. He holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Business Management, and worked as a Data Engineering consultant for five years, before joining the team at Picnic Technology. He is enthusiastic about building and optimizing data pipelines while exploring new approaches to handle and model data to enable the fast-pace business of Picnic.

Detecting Outages at Scale

Sometimes the internet is having a bad day, and Facebook, Instagram or Whatsapp doesn't work. You and countless of other people rush to downdetector.com to check if that's really the case. Here's our story about the last Facebook outage, and how we made our service scale.

Getting started with FPGA with Python

FPGA is becoming more and more popular in many fields such as IOT, video processing. It also used to make computations for machine learning and trading technologies more effective. Unfortunately for newbies to this technology, it is quite complicated and usually requires using specific languages: Verilog and/or VHDL. But with frameworks such as myVDL and PYNQ Python developers also can explore these opportunities. We'll look into FPGA technology, touch what it is and where and how it's used. Also, where can Python developers start and what they can achieve.

.. Links

.. _fourth instance: https://www.meetup.com/PyAmsterdam/events/263449620/
.. _Picnic: https://join.picnic.app

.. _Talk 1: https://github.com/PyAmsterdam/py-meetups/edit/master/talks/dinis-louseiro.rst
.. _Talk 2: https://github.com/PyAmsterdam/py-meetups/blob/master/talks/detecting-autages-at-scale-downdetector.rst
.. _Talk 3: https://github.com/PyAmsterdam/py-meetups/blob/master/talks/python-fpga.md