DragonPy meetup March 2024

Hello Python enthusiasts (to be),

we're meeting again in March at our partner's office united.cloud in Situla (Vilharjeva). For those of you who are not organized, have bad memory or just can't make it, there will be an option of attending the meetup online (link will be provided later). Be warned, though, that you will miss out of the hang.

Theme of this meetup is data. Here are the scheduled talks:

Rok Mihevc: Apache Arrow - Managing bytes for fun and profit
Rok will talk about what is Apache Arrow and Apache Parquet. What are the functionalities of Arrow? He's going to explain why that would be interesting for a (data) engineer.

Ivan Kolundžija: Self-hosting a Data Stack
"Many data people do their work exclusively in the cloud; public cloud and SaaS providers like AWS, Azure, Snowflake, etc. make it easy to build faster and with smaller teams.
But what if you can't use the cloud because of costs, regulations, or some other reason? Let's discuss some reasons to host your data infrastructure on premises, some of the most useful open source technologies you can use to achieve this goal, and how it can teach you to gain value from your data in a leaner and smarter way."

Grega Snoj: SQL and Python: The Dynamic Duo of Data Warehousing
Dive into the essentials of data warehousing with a twist, as we explore how SQL and Python join forces in Snowflake to streamline data ingestion, processing, and delivery. This lecture offers a pragmatic look at leveraging SQL's power for structured querying within Snowflake, while pinpointing the scenarios where Python's versatility shines for complex data manipulations.

If you have an interesting data oriented topic to present in under 05:00 minutes, feel free to contact us through traditional channels and we'll think about opening a lightning talks section.