Python talk night at F5 Networks

Join us for an exciting Talk Night at F5 Network's Downtown Seattle office!

Agenda:
5:30-6pm: Doors open/networking
6-6:10pm: Opening remarks
6:10-6:35pm: Talk #1
6:35-6:45pm: Intermission
6:45-7:10pm: Talk #2
7:10-7:20pm: Intermission
7:20-7:45pm: Talk #3
7:45-7:50pm: Closing remarks
After party to follow at Owl N' Thistle (808 Post Ave, Seattle, WA 98104)

What we'll do:
This event will feature the following presentations:

Talk #1: What’s Provable, Not Probabilistic: Schema Evolution as a Graph Rewrite
Speaker: Ivan Schneider
Description: Last time, I built a working database from a random Wikipedia page; this time I evolve a real one, live, in code I didn’t write. Rename a column and the change ripples through the ORM, the migration, the serializer, the API, and every consumer downstream. A deterministic engine can prove it safe on AI-generated greenfield code — then I’ll push it into popular open-source libraries, where “safe” stops being provable and the tool has to admit what it can’t see. Let’s find out how far we can take it.

Talk #2: Secure Sandboxes For Coding Agents
Speaker: Yason Khaburzaniya
Description: This talk covers how to run coding agents in a secure way secure way. It uncovers the challenges of securing a coding agent and preventing exfiltration of secrets while maximizing utility of a coding agent. We will use a FastAPI application as an example. Discuss different approaches and arrive at a solution that provides maximum security while maintaining reasonable developer experience.

Talk #3: FFIs but better: BAML Bridge
Speaker: Sam Lijin and Kai Orita
Description: We've spent the last 8 months creating a new programming language, and also adding an ergonomic foreign function interface to it that are typesafe for all things. That means threads, generics, errors over the ffi boundary, and callbacks. We'll walk through both what something like this looks like and some details about how to bridge python ⭤ baml (by way of rust ffis).

What to bring:
Since this is a talk format meetup, you don't need a computer. F5 Networks is providing pizza.

Building access:
The building is accessible from the street via an entrance on 5th Avenue. The event is on the 48th floor.

Parking:
The F5 Tower garage is open until 10pm and rates are $19 to $21 for 2 and 3 hours respectively. There are also additional garages and street parking in the area.

Transit:
F5 Network's offices are within walking distance of numerous buses on 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th, avenues and the Pioneer Square link station.