• Everything you want to know about Kubernetes, preferably before using it

    There is a lot of hype about Kubernetes those days, but do you know what Kubernetes really gives you, out of the box? Not as much as you might expect. « Kubernetes is a platform for building platforms. It's a better place to start; not the endgame. » Kelsey Hightower (Developer Advocate at Google) In this talk, I will present my experience as a software engineer who started building a bare-metal Kubernetes cluster without much knowledge in networking or other low-level infrastructure concepts, but with a developer background and mindset that ended up being quite useful.

  • Scaling Python to 1K QPS per server, not doing Hello Worlds

    I will present a sample web application inspired from the real world (so not an application doing hello worlds) and showcase several ways of scaling it up, layer after layer, doing benchmarks at every step, up to 1000 queries per second — or 86.4 millions per day — on one Amazon server.

  • PEP 557 versus the world

    Python 3.7 will ship with a new module called "dataclasses", which has been defined in PEP 557. What is this module? What are the problems that PEP 557 authors try to solve? What was the chosen design, and why? How does it compare against the tools that already exist?