PyBerlin 43 - ❄️❄️ January's event ❄️❄️

Agenda:

• 18:30 - Opening doors of the venue

• 19:00 - Welcome to PyBerlin! // Organisers

• 19:10 - Welcome from the host - doctari GmbH

• 19:20 - Meetings That Yield Results // Evgenia Kochkina
Meetings don't have a great reputation - and for a reason. As many tips and solutions as they are, successful meetings still don't seem to be a common place across the industry. So let's try to make another attempt to figure it out. This talk isn't about agendas, timelines and facilitation techniques. It rather is about splitting collaborative and focused work where they belong and making sure we don't mix the two.

Speaker's bio:
I am an Engineering Manager with 6 years of managerial experience in three different companies, currently working at Native Instruments GmbH. I also have C++ software engineering and scientific background. I believe leadership and people management in software engineering industry requires decent technical understanding as well as vision, big picture and abstractions, good soft skills, empathy and discipline. I also strongly believe that management is a lot about communication and sincere interest in people. In my work as an engineering manager I am trying my best to keep the right mix of all of the above and some more and to help my team stay focused and engaged.

• 19:50 - Short break

• 20:20 - f-strings: Could they get any better? // Lysandros Nikolaou
PEP 701 – Syntactic formalisation of f-strings - was one of the biggest changes in syntax in Python 3.12! In this talk, we’ll cover some of the pre-existing problems of f-strings, the approach we followed to implement the changes, the challenges we faced in doing so, as well as some things we could have done better. Along the way, we’ll also explore how major changes in as big a codebase as CPython can be made easier and have as little (negative) user impact as possible.

Speaker's bio:
Lysandros works as a Senior Software Engineer at Quansight Labs, where he spends most of his time on open-source. He is a CPython core developer, specializing in the parser, the tokenizer and the REPL. He recently worked on supercharging f-strings in Python 3.12. Lately, he's also become involved with NumPy, working on features that will be part of the upcoming NumPy 2.0 release.

• 20:50 - Measuring Software Delivery Performance at doctari // Kirill Khaidukov
In this talk we'll cover the metrics that are used at doctari to measure software productivity: focusing on DORA metrics (deployment frequency, change failure rate, lead time for changes and mean time to recover), and some others. Kirill will show how these can be implemented and used by the teams.

Speaker's bio:
Kirill works at Doctari where his job is about quality and testing (and everything else around that) in software development context.

• 21:20 - Closing session // Organisers

This event will be only in-person. Please check our Code of Conduct and official health regulation in Berlin before coming. If you feel some signs of sickness, please consider skipping this event and attending another time. We will have plenty of events in different formats in the future.

Looking forward seeing you all soon!