Auckland Python Meetup

The Auckland members of the New Zealand Python Users Group meet every month. You're very welcome to attend.

What is happening this month?

Tim McNamara will be talking on "Shifting Data Between Programs: How Erlang Talks to Python".

There seem to be a number of very "big and important" pieces of software that happen to be built in Erlang that are integrated with Python to greater or lesser degrees. This raises a few questions:

Why Erlang? Why Python? How does data get serialised? What happens when things crash? What lessens are there for people who are faced with multiple systems that need to talk togeher? This talk will be looking into CouchDB, Riak, Disco and RabbitMQ trying to tease out how easy is is for these systems to cooperate with the Python way of doing things. As we will see, there are surprising commonalities and perhaps a few interesting differences between how this cooperation comes to be. Some of the products, such as Disco, rely on Python to actually get work done and have it deep in their core.

As well as talking, we will be working in small groups to implement a Python worker that responds to one of the protocols discussed.

Who turns up?

We have a healthy mix of Python users. We are made up of (at least):

students hobbyists GIS specialists engineers web programmers and scientists Don't be put of by this list though! Many people attending are new to Python or only dabble in it.

Format

Meetings are very relaxed. We generally have a main presentation at the beginning and lots of warm discussion afterwards.

Beginner Programmer?

Great! We would love to see you. Let us know if there are any problems that you are having by asking in the comments below. We'll try to some help for you.

First time attending?

Newcomers are very welcome to attend. Finding the venue can be slightly hard though.

Parking

For parking information see here:
http://nzpug.org/MeetingsAuckland/AutTower