Chipy October 2018 Main Meeting

ChiPy, we have a great meeting planned this month! Hope to see you there!

What:
Tour of job scheduling in Python
By: Raymond Buhr
Experience Level: Novice
Once you've started to learn python, you're going to want to use it to automate tasks. Their are lots of ways to do this, each with it's own set of pros and cons. This talk will go over a few options for scheduling the execution of python scripts and the tradeoffs that come with each. Tools that will be covered include crontab, schedule, celery, airflow, and cloud options AWS Lambda and GCP functions.

Why Learn PySpark?
By: David Liao
Experience Level: Novice
Grubhub has chosen to adopt the Spark Big Data computing framework to underpin it’s internal Grubhub Data Platform Spark was adopted very early by Silicon Valley FANG companies.. What features make Spark a great computing platform for both Analytical reporting and Machine Learning? Tips on how to install PySpark on a Mac OSX system so one can play wit PySpark without paying for a cloud cluster

Defining services with grpc and protocol buffers
By: Patrick Boland
Experience Level: Intermediate
gRPC and protocol buffers offer a high performance, open source way to define services and messages for the future. Think of it like REST, but for the http2 protocol.