Python User Group meetup #7

We’re very happy to announce the seventh Python User Group meetup! 🚀 🐍
For this event, we'll be coming to Ghent 🤩! Big thanks a lot to Lighthouse for kindly hosting the event. 🫶 ❤️

🕜 19:00
⭐️ EXPLORING DESIGN PATTERNS IN PYTHON
Design patterns are like ready-made plans that help solve common problems in software development. But have you noticed that Python often gets left out when these patterns are taught in software courses? Python’s dynamic nature not only changes how we use these patterns, it even creates some new ones.
In this talk, we’ll dive into design patterns in Python, showing how they can make your code better. We’ll also see why some patterns just don’t fit with Python’s way of doing things. Join us for a practical, Python-focused look at design patterns and discover how they can help you write better code.
🙂 Yannick Clybouw (Backend Software Engineer at Lighthouse)

🕜 19:30
⭐️ BOOST YOUR PYTHON TESTING WITH TESTCONTAINERS
Writing tests that mimic production environments can be challenging, especially when dealing with dependencies like databases, message brokers, and external services
We will go through the following topics:
- What are testcontainers?
- Test environment setup
- Writing some test scenarios
- Integration with pytest and unittest
- Demo + some practical examples
🙂 Thibauld Croonenborghs (Data Engineer at AE)

🕜 20:15
⭐️ MLOPS MADE EASY WITH MLFLOW
In this session I will explain how to use MLflow to manage your ML lifecycle: from experiment tracking to model deployment with a special focus on MLOps.
🙂 Vitale Sparacello