PythonWA Meetup April - How Amazon Go Works & Trusted Publishers in PyPI

How Amazon Go Works
by Bruce Cooper

Ever wondered how Amazon Go, the convenience store with no checkout, was developed? Bruce Cooper was one of the principal engineers who worked on Amazon Go, helping to take it from concept to grand opening, then on to scale. Bruce will take us through how the concept for the store evolved over time (showing some of the internal product thinking), some of the technical challenges that were faced, and a high level overview of the machine learning technologies that were employed and the hardware that was used.

Python was used extensively in the development of Amazon Go, but not exclusively. The intent of this talk isn’t to go into deep Python details, but we will briefly cover some of the technology used.

Caveat: Bruce no longer works on Amazon Go, or at Amazon at all. Whilst this talk will go through how Go was developed, all information is from some years ago, and is Bruce’s personal recollection of the program. He does not represent Amazon or Amazon Go, and none of the material presented is official Amazon messaging.

Trusted Publishers in PyPI
By Jordan Duabe

Trusted publishing is a "new" mechanism for uploading packages to the Python Package Index (PyPI).

It leverages the OpenID Connect (OIDC) standard to facilitate the exchange of short-lived identity tokens between a trusted third-party service and PyPI. What's cool about this method is its applicability in automated environments (like GitHub Actions), offering a streamlined process that removes the need for manually generated API tokens for authentication for your publishing workflows.

Jordan is a software engineer with proficiency across a diverse range of tech stacks, building web and mobile applications, configuring CI/CD pipelines, managing Kubernetes clusters, and monitoring production systems.

Interests include building custom mechanical keyboards, playing video games, hiking, dabbling in linguistics and music theory.

Thanks to our food and beverage sponsor: https://horizondigital.au/
and venue sponsor: https://spacecubed.com/