ChiPy WebDev / DevOps SIG presents Service Oriented Architecture

Chicago Python WebDev / DevOps Special Interest Group (SIG) presents Service Oriented Architecture! Join us Tuesday, April 7th, 2020 at 6pm!

Due to CVOID-19 concerns, this event will be held virtually on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9jKxr9mR5w

Thank you to ReviewTrackers for sponsoring this event! ReviewTrackers is hiring! Check out their open positions: https://jobs.lever.co/reviewtrackers

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AGENDA
6:00 - Broadcast starts on YouTube
8:00 - Estimated end time

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Our talks:

JSON and Protobufs, a closer look
by Chris Moirano

This talk will take a close look at the JSON and Protobuf data formats and how the data is actually represented over the wire. This talk will introduce the basics of binary, capturing a request with Wireshark, and comparing/contrasting the two data representations. I also hope to cover how to interpret Protocol Buffers in their binary form

Bio:
Chris Moirano is backend python engineer at Numerator

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Deep Learning Models for NLP
by Andrew Johnson and Joey Schuringa

ReviewTrackers recently upgraded their NLP models to use state of the art BERT, developed by Google AI. We will introduce the what, why, and how this was done, focusing on the deep learning models themselves and the infrastructure surrounding them.

Bio:
Joey Schuringa is a Senior Backend Engineer at ReviewTrackers.

Andrew Johnson is an NLP Data Scientist at ReviewTrackers.

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Testing with Hypothesis
by Suhas Sreenivas

While practicing coding questions for interviews from a book, I wanted to generate test data rather than manually write test cases because I found that I would miss a few scenarios to test each time.

This led me to a python library, hypothesis, and learning about property based testing. In this lightning talk, I will go over how I generated test cases for common interview questions involving strings, linked lists and trees and also how I chose properties to test against.

Bio:
Suhas is a grad student studying Computer Science at Illinois Tech. He enjoys learning about and working on Back-End systems.