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San Francisco Python Meetup Group

Name: SF Python January at Sentry
Start: 2026-01-15T02:30:00.000Z
End: 2026-01-15T04:30:00.000Z
Location: Sentry

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San Francisco, CA, US

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What we’re about

Enhancing the Python community and ecosystems, one developer focused event at a time.

Submit talks: https://bit.ly/bapyacfp 👈

Started in Nov 2008, SF Python is the largest, longest running community-run meetup in SF Bay Area. Each year, our dedicated team of volunteers produce 20+ developer focused, live events for Pythonistas to connect, learn, share, and grow together.

As a member of our community, you agree to adhere to our code of conduct. Please see our Code of Conduct page for further details.

Why do we put these events up?
We believe there is power in in-person interactions. We believe in learning, sharing, and helping each other out. And we have seen the results. We have heard stories of people getting their problems solved because of the talks and the people they met at our events. We have witnessed people grow in their career, from receiving their first internship to landing their first speaking gig at conferences. We have even heard companies migrating to a different platform/technologies after attending our conference.
We look forward to your joining this awesome community - be it attending our events, giving a talk, donating your venue space, or supporting us financially via sponsorship!
Hope to see you at some or more of the following events!
2 monthly meetups
- Presentation Night on the 2nd Wednesday of each month features intermediate to advanced level tech talks from Python Software Foundation members, core developers of open-source projects, and local software engineers.
- Project Night on the 3rd Wednesday of most months offers a chill evening to hack on projects, get questions answered, mentor other devs, or attend a tutorial. It's usually held at various companies in SF so you get to sample how different companies are using Python.
PyBay, a yearly regional Python Conference
https://youtu.be/EwK04nc4iyI

PyBay is the local version of PyCon. It's a 4-day event in August with 750+ Python devs, 9+ workshops, 60+ talks, expo, happy hour, and a lot more.
Our annual holiday party
We think you'd agree that if you have been coming to SF Python's events, you have been advancing in your field. So come celebrate the year with us. We will listen to more amazing speakers while enjoying great food, drinks and live music.

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SF Python January at Sentry
Wed, Jan 14 · 6:30 PM PST
Sentry, 45 Fremont Street, San Francisco, CA, US
Want to learn more about Python and meet other Pythonistas?

Please register: here (https://ti.to/sfpython/jan-14th-sf-python-sentry?source=meetup)

Please support our sponsors Sentry!

👉 Submit your 5, 15 or 25 mins talk proposals here: https://bit.ly/bapyacfp

SCHEDULED TALKS

🔎 Migration from On-Prem Messaging System to The Cloud: What, How and Why - Tom (Ran) Tao
The race to the cloud is on, with enterprises everywhere migrating core infrastructure to stay competitive and cost effective. But when it comes to the messaging systems that power cross-component communications, a simple “lift and shift” isn’t adequate and can be a recipe for failure. The migration path is riddled with complex decisions and design pitfalls unique to every use case. In this session, AWS Cloud Support expert Tom will walk you through the critical stages of rehosting, replatforming, and refactoring, showing you how to unlock maximum performance and reliability for messaging systems. Tom will then move into what are the best practices for Python Celery Client for RabbitMQ and how we can observe Message Broker and its performance through tools like RabbitMQAdmin, a Python Based Toolbox for managing RabbitMQ broker.
Additionally, Tom will compare traditional message brokers with more modernized serverless messaging services on AWS. By the end of the session, you will have a much more comprehensive understanding of the migration process, key questions to ask and some best practices for harnessing the benefits of Cloud, including sample Python code examples interacting with RabbitMQ, SNS and SQS.
Tom is a Cloud Support Engineer at AWS with five years of dedicated experience. He has gained extensive expertise in cloud-based messaging systems by guiding hundreds of customers through the process of migrating their on-premise systems to the cloud and troubleshooting any issues that arise.

🔎 A simple PubSub on AWS (short talk)- James Abel
This talk will cover a simple scale-to-zero serverless PubSub, which is part of the AWSimple library. AWSimple is a thin layer on top of boto3 that makes using AWS simpler for specific (but common) use cases.

🔎 Artificial Neurons: The Small Math That Explains The Big Models - Tyler Suard
Most of today’s AI looks complicated because the explanations are complicated, not because the math is. This talk breaks deep learning down to the small set of basic ideas that keep showing up inside the big models. No Greek-symbol marathons, no PhD vocabulary, just intuition you can actually use. If you’ve run models in PyTorch but want to debug better, tune with confidence, and learn new architectures faster, this is your roadmap from magic to mechanics.
Tyler is a Senior AI Researcher and Developer at a Fortune 500 company, building generative AI agent RAG chatbots.

AGENDA
6:30p Reconnect with friends!
7:00p Opening remarks, sponsors acknowledgement
7:10p Scheduled talks and Q&A + networking break
8:30p Wrap up last talk, more networking

THIS EVENT IS PRODUCED BY
SF Python, a volunteers-run organization aiming to foster the Python Community in the Bay Area
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