Taming Hidden State: State Charts in Python

Room 340. Doors open at 5:30pm, pizza and networking at 6pm, presentation soon after.

Bio:

Tom is full time Software Developer and sometimes Software Engineer. Over the past few years he's worked mainly on deploying his Data-Science teams models as APIs. This included working on an in-house cloud auto-scaling processes (no this was not done lightly, and yes there was a reasonably good reason).

Talk:

Do you have implicit state machines hidden in you code? Tom thinks the answer is probably "Yes". He will attempt to explain how these hidden state machines arise, and argue that there are advantages to explicitly defining them.

Time permitting, he will give a brief introduction to Statecharts and some of the ways they solve the short-comings of state machines.