Noah Kantrowitz

Humans make mistakes. We all know it, and yet so often downplay this in our team processes. Doubly so in this age of assuming we’ll always notice the errors from AI and automation in code review. One of the marks of a good system is how it handles our inherent human fallibility. This talk will...

Hello World is often used as a stand-in for "the simplest program", great for teaching and getting people started on their coding journey. But what really happens in that one line? This talk will be a deep dive into the Python interpreter, C libraries, Linux kernel, and beyond. We will poke...

Python is great! It's been a mainstay of web development and systems programming for decades and is on the cutting edge of many fields like scientific computing. But there is always more to improve, both in the language itself and how we use it. This talk will look at how ideas and features from...

A case study of a single-application ETL system to scrape and enrich complex nested data and then expose it via GraphQL and Discord. It will dive into how to use these various async-based libraries together in a small footprint app.

Everyone is talking about Kubernetes, but migrating existing applications is often easier said than done. This talk will cover the tale of migrating our main Django application to Kubernetes, and all the problems and solutions we ran into along the way.