Dom Weldon

Python is an excellent scripting language, and its syntax and wider ecosystem have evolved over the past three and a half decades allowing it to be used to build (almost) anything. However, the strength that this flexibility offers can also be a source of weakness: because it's so easy to write...

We'll explore the tools that the Python language and ecosystem give us to inject rich metadata into code, and how we can exploit this to maximum advantage in an age where code is cheap, but delivering value with it is still as hard as ever.

We all know how important it is to make sure that you see the "secure" padlock icon when paying for something online. It's simple, easy to understand, and automatic. Is your code the same? How would you start to make sure it is? Let’s dive into those questions in this talk. First off, the...

What actually happens when you import a package? Let's find out, then explore recent packaging developments, including the new tool PDM, comparing it to pip and poetry. We'll also cover some (opinionated) best practices for handling metadata, and building secure, modern applications using third...

We'll cover the fundamentals of the Serverless approach to running code in AWS, deploying a FastAPI web application, with CI/CD, quickly, using the Infrastructure as Code tool Terraform. Crucially, we'll cover the fundamentals of Serverless AWS, and make comparisons to server-based approaches.

A deep dive into python functions and the callable interface surrounding them. We take a tour into everything that happens on on a “def” line in Python, and explore how to make the most of all the rich metadata provided about functions, before going into detail hacking the Python decorator...

A deep dive into python functions and the callable interface. We take a tour into everything that happens on on a “def” line and when you call the resulting function. We'll also explore how to harness detailed function metadata, and how to hack the decorator pattern.

A deep dive into python functions and the callable interface surrounding them. We take a tour into everything that happens on on a "def" line in Python, and explore how to make the most of all the rich metadata provided about functions, before going into detail hacking the Python decorator pattern.

From the team that makes Plotly, Dash is a library for producing interactive web apps with Python. This talk introduces Dash and will discuss how it may fit into your team!

Your data science or machine learning project probably won't just produce a written report. Instead, projects are increasingly expected to produce interactive tools to allow end-users to explore data and results with rich, interactive visualizations. Inevitably, this will be done in a web...