Christchurch Python Meetup - April 2026
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Brian Thorne: Awa, a Postgres-native background job queue
Python talks! Python people! Join our monthly meetup about all things Python. If all goes well there will also be pizza and drinks.
- We meet every fourth Tuesday of a month at 5:45pm (talks start at 6:30pm)
- 📌 Space is limited at the venue, so please only register (it's free) if you really intend to come. Also, as we will aim to provide some food and drinks, this will help us manage amounts and avoid waste. Thank you!
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- Python New Zealand's Code of Conduct applies to all Python New Zealand events and participants agree to abide by it.
Brian will be talking about his new project, named Awa (Māori: river). It provides durable, transactional job enqueueing with typed handlers in both Rust and Python. All queue state lives in Postgres — no Redis, no RabbitMQ. The Rust runtime handles polling, heartbeating, crash recovery, and dispatch. Python workers run on that same runtime via PyO3, getting Rust-grade reliability with Python-native ergonomics.
Finding the meetup: Look for a glass door with a sign mentioning the meetup and head upstairs to the Trade Me office. Call the phone number on the sign if you arrive late and the door is locked.
Can't make the meetup in person? It'll also be accessible virtually at the link below. The virtual session will open around 6pm.
Don't hesitate to pass this information around to whomever you think may be interested to hear and discuss all things Python.
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