The Austin Python Meetup

New location at Brazos Place @ 800 Brazos st. us the entrance on brazos street not 8th.
This is a Hybrid event both in-person and virtual. The in-person event is hosted at Antler downtown Austin.

Address:
Brazos Place @ 800 Brazos st,
The entrance is off of Brazos st.

Talk: Danica Fine - Quiet on Set: Building an On-Air Sign with Open Source Technologies

Description:
While many of us have adapted to work from home life, one major problem remains: finding an easy way to keep folks in your home away from your workspace when you’re on an important call. Dust off your Raspberry Pi––let’s build a custom on-air sign with Apache Kafka®, Apache Flink®, and Apache Iceberg™!

We’ll begin by writing Python scripts to capture key events––such as when a Zoom meeting is running and when a camera is being used––and produce it into Kafka. The live data are then consumed by a Raspberry Pi script to drive the operation of a custom designed on-air sign. From there, you’ll be introduced to FlinkSQL for stream processing as we wrangle the data into Iceberg tables for downstream analysis.

By the end of the session, you’ll be well-acquainted with this powerful trio of open source technologies and know how you could use the same scaffolding and scale out a simple, at-home project to millions of users and simultaneous events.

Speaker Bio
Danica began her career as a software engineer in data visualization and warehousing with a business intelligence team where she served as a point-person for standards and best practices in data visualization across her company. In 2018, Danica moved to San Francisco and pivoted to backend engineering with a data team which was responsible for building and maintaining the infrastructure that processes millions of financial market data per second in near real-time. Her first project on this team involved Kafka Streams and Kafka Connect. From there, she immersed herself in the world of data streaming and found herself quite at home in the Apache Kafka and Apache Flink communities. She now leads the open source advocacy efforts at Snowflake, primarily supporting Apache Iceberg and Apache Polaris (incubating).
Outside of work, Danica is passionate about sustainability, increasing diversity in the technical community, and keeping her many houseplants alive. She can be found on X (Bluesky and Mastodon), talking about tech, plants, and baking @TheDanicaFine.

Antler
Antler works with founders through our signature founder residency, adding value immediately, and taking no equity up front. We receive over 160,000 applications each year to build companies with us, and have grown to 18 funds with residencies in 30 cities around the globe. Founders also have the opportunity to pitch our Investment Committee to receive an up to $500K investment, allowing them to build for 12-18 months rather than attempting to raise before they have real traction.