PyData March 2020 Virtual Meetup

Third meetup in 2020 and this time we try to make it remote!
We will start with the talks at 7 pm.

Zoom Meeting Details:
Topic: Adrin Jalali's Zoom Meeting
Time: Mar 18, 2020 07:00 PM Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna
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Meeting ID: 703 806 785
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Meeting ID: 703 806 785
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Talks:

Alicja Kucharczyk: Architecting petabyte-scale analytics by scaling out Postgres on Azure with Citus

A story about powering a 1.5 petabyte internal analytics application at Microsoft with 2816 cores and 18.7 TB of memory in the Citus cluster.
The internal RQV analytics dashboard at Microsoft helps the Windows team to assess the quality of upcoming Windows releases. The system tracks 20,000 diagnostic and quality metrics, digests data from 800 million Windows devices and currently supports over 6 million queries per day, with hundreds of concurrent users. The RQV analytics dashboard relies on Postgres—along with the Citus extension to Postgres to scale out horizontally—and is deployed on Microsoft Azure.

Alicja Kucharczyk, currently working at Microsoft as EMEA Global Black Belt OSS Data tech Specialist - is a PostgreSQL expert, both an experienced developer as well as administrator and PostgreSQL coach with strong practical knowledge of Linux and their mutual interactions. Particularly interested in performance optimization at different levels. She has consulted a lot of companies, mainly in Poland providing them with working solutions and supporting them in architecting, deploying and maintaining PostgreSQL. She is the founder and organizer of 🐘 Warsaw PostgreSQL Users Group - the group gathering polish PostgreSQL users, speaker at local user groups and conferences and trying to advocate PostgreSQL and open source in many possible ways.
In the free time seen usually with two dogs 13 and 19 years old, benchmarking on 4U home server or writing games in python.

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Cristián Maureira-Fredes: Stars, black holes, and snakes.

Have you ever wonder how star clusters or black holes dynamically evolve? In this talk, you will learn all the magic behind gravitational dynamics, and how Python is becoming one of the most important tools for astrophysical research.

Cristián has been a Python enthusiast for more than 10 years, and due to his academic background, he has been using it in different topics like Image Processing, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Data Science, and Astrophysics.
Currently, he is an R&D Manager at The Qt Company, leading teams working on different aspects of the Qt Framework (Qt Core/QML/Qt for Python).

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Lightning talks:

Auss Abbood: epysurv (https://github.com/JarnoRFB/epysurv), a Python package for disease outbreak detection.

Lightning talk slots are still open. Give us a message on meetup, email us at info@pydata.berlin or just ask us at the event if slots are still open.

Looking forward remotely to seeing you at the March meetup! We hope this all works out for everybody.