Python Ireland February 2026 Meetup
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Talk: How to bring a Python monolith back from the brink.
A real life case study on a Python monolith: it was the key business driver, but in 2022 is was about to be officially designated as 'deprecated', and a huge project to break it into micro services launched.
Learn about what we did instead. This talk touches on python best practices for code readability, performance, ORM use (sqlalchemy), code architecture and the pitfalls of microservices.
Author: Paul Harte
[https://www.paulspetprojects.net/]
[I've been a Python developer since 2012! I spent many years working with Bank of America, but am now working as a Staff Engineer on the platform team at Qualio.
I have build many production apps in python, and also dabble in a little machine learning in my spare time (see my GitHub).
Long term fan of the group and Pycon (I still have my Pycon 2013 t-shirt!)]
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Talk: Intro to Celbridge: an open source python & spreadsheet workbench
Celbridge is an open source workbench application that aims to streamline user workflows, with a particular focus on spreadsheet editing, python scripting and easy integration with web applications. This talk should be interesting to people who regularly work with spreadsheets and would like to use Python to automate and speed up their workflows.
Author: Chris Gregan
[https://www.celbridge.org/]
[Chris is the Lead Developer at Celbridge.org, previously Lead Tools Programmer at Romero Games in Galway. A game developer with over 20 years' industry experience, (and a huge Python fan since 2003!), he has shipped dozens of games, including Diner Dash and Empire of Sin. He has led programming teams on a multitude of projects, established several game studios, and worked on a wide selection of game engines. Chris loves working with teams to build user-friendly tools that support developers and content creators, specializing in Python, C#, .NET, and C++. He also created Fungus, a popular open-source storytelling tool for Unity Engine. He was a founding board member of Imirt, the Irish game makers' association.]
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Lightning Talk:
- TBA
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Venue: Central Quad,TU Dublin, Grangegorman Lower, Dublin 7, D07 C972
- Room CQ-009
- The room is in the Central Quad building of the Grangegorman TU Dublin campus
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Big thanks to our sponsor for this edition:
- Dr. Brian Keegan, Head of School
- Matt Smith, Senior Lecturer in Computing, School of Informatics & Cybersecurity TUD