BayPIGgies March 2024 -- Talks: Testing, Data, SRE

BayPIGgies will be meeting in person Thursday March 21, 2024.

Location:

San Jose Cambrian Library
1780 Hillsdale Ave
San Jose, CA 95124
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Schedule:

• 6:30 Socialize and grab food
• 6:45 Welcome and Announcements
• 6:55 Lightning Talk: The Fun World of SRE
• 7:05 Lightning Talk: Better Together: Unleashing the Synergy of Pandas, Polars, and Apache Arrow
• 7:20 Main Talk: Mock It Till You Make It: How to Verify Your External Mocks Without Ever Leaving Unittest

**** Lightning talks *****

-- "The Fun World of SRE" presented by Sangeetha Sridharan
Sangeetha Sridharan is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Palo Alto Networks

-- "Better Together: Unleashing the Synergy of Pandas, Polars, and Apache Arrow" presented by Chris Brousseau
Supercharge your data engineering workflows by merging the robustness of Pandas with the high-speed capabilities of Polars, all underpinned by Apache Arrow's in-memory technology. This technical deep-dive will unravel the nuances between Pandas and Polars, showcase their newest features, and demonstrate how to integrate them for optimal performance.
Chris Brousseau is Founder of Surface Owl and a data science consultant focused on data engineering and NLP and visualizations. A native Vermonter, Chris is an avid skier, and has lived in the Bay Area for over 25 years.

**** Main talk *****

-- "Mock It Till You Make It: How to Verify Your External Mocks Without Ever Leaving Unittest" presented by Liz Acosta
A controlled environment and consistent dependencies are crucial to writing good and – most importantly – relevant tests in Python. While the advent of APIs has made using external services so much more accessible, APIs can lead to flaky or deceptive tests, ultimately putting applications at risk. In this talk, you will learn how to use Python’s Mock object to create more reliable stand-ins for APIs beyond your control … all within the unittest framework.

Liz Acosta is a lover of plants, pugs, pizza, and Python. Liz's diverse professional experience and unconventional path to tech mean she brings a unique perspective to engineering. She is an advocate who seeks to empower developers from all aspects of life and learning.

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See you soon!