The Austin Python Meetup Monthly Meetup

We typically have a main presentation or a series of lightning talks, followed by discussion and Q&A. There is a diversity of domains and experience levels represented, so come with your questions and be prepared to talk about how you use Python!

Talk 1: Ryan Perry - Introduction to Continuous Profiling using Pyroscope

Talk 2: Jacob Barhak - The Reference Model for COVID-19 attempts to explain US data

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Talk 1: Introduction to Continuous Profiling using Pyroscope

Description:
Profiling is an effective way of understanding which parts of your application are consuming the most resources. Traditionally, logs, metrics and traces have been considered the three pillars of observability, but more recently profiling has emerged as a fourth pillar to be used alongside these other observability tools.

Continuous Profiling, in particular, adds a dimension of time that allows you to understand your system’s resource usage (i.e. CPU, Memory, etc.) over time and gives you the ability to locate, debug, and fix issues related to performance.

In this talk, we'll present Pyroscope, an Open Source Continuous Profiling platform, explain the particular challenges it needs to tackle and showcase how it can be used to analyze and fix performance bottlenecks.

Bio:
Ryan is the CEO and co-founder of Pyroscope and has been working on it for a little over a year. He is from Indiana and studied business in college initially, but transitioned to software engineering after completing a coding bootcamp in 2017. Since then he's worked as both a software engineer and a product manager across a couple of different startups (Sensor Tower and the Applovin).

Talk 2: The Reference Model for COVID-19 attempts to explain US data

Description:
The Reference Model attempts to explain COVID-19 data recorded by US states and territories using intelligible and human comprehensible models. It is is the first Multi-Scale Ensemble Model of COVID-19 Driven by Python and High Performance Computing. The model and recent results will be explored.

Bio:
Jacob Barhak is a Computational Disease Modeler focusing on machine comprehension of clinical data. The Reference Model for disease progression was self developed by Dr. Barhak. His efforts include standardizing clinical data through ClinicalUnitMapping.com. He is one of the Austin python meetup organizers.