EuroPython 2016 Overview
Sorry, no memes
What? Where?
- Bilbao, Biscay, Spain
- 17-24 July 2016 (8 days)
- 5 parallel speaker sessions each day
- Something about 150 talks
- More that 1000 participants
- Sprints, workshops, collaborating and so on
Keynotes
20 years without a 'proper job'
by Rachel Willmer
A Million Children (and MicroPython)
by Nicholas Tollervey
Inside the Hat: Python @ Walt Disney Animation Studios
by Paul Hildebrandt
Restricted image!
LIGO: The Dawn of Gravitational Wave Astronomy
by Jameson Rollins
Come for the Language, Stay for the Community
by Naomi Ceder
Scientist meets web dev: how Python became the language of data
by Gaël Varoquaux
Buzz Words
Async.IO
PyData
Docker
Testing
My own track goals
- Containerization - Docker, Kubernetes, Service Discovery
- Testing - Mocks, Profiling, Bottlenecks
- Python vs C/C++ - CFFI, CPython API, Cython
- Async.IO - cold start
- Python in general - py3, cool stuff and so
Containerization
Docker, Kubernetes, Service Discovery
and so :)
Create secure production environment using Docker
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Avoid using Docker with the --privileged flag
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Avoid providing access to the Docker user or the Docker group
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Avoid providing access to the Docker UNIX socket or REST API to potentially untrusted callers or containers
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Consider using the docker-bench-security tool by Docker
Salting things up in the sysadmin's world
- With great responsibility comes great power.
- If configured properly, Salt can allow for full control of an infrastructure.
- Don’t fear the power; beware of the security risks though.
Using Service Discovery to build dynamic python applications
- ZooKeeper
- etcd
- Consul
Grocker, a Python build chain for Docker
- Debian packaging was hell (in 2015)
- Containerized applications are the future!
- OpenShift/Source-To-Image use source not package
Log all the things!
Centralized logging (and the ELK stack) is proving itself to be a very useful tool in managing a production infrastructure. When combined
with other data sources (application logging, business data, ...) it can provide even more insight.
Testing
Mocks, Profiling, Bottlenecks
Where is bottleneck?
Profiling the unprofilable
- Tracing profilers
- cProfile
- yappi
- line_profiler
- Sampling profilers
- statprof
- plop
- vmprof
- Intel Vtune Amplifier
Effectively test your webapp with Python and Selenium
- leverage application APIs for fixture setup/teardown
- add metadata in your application HTML to enable easy element retrieval for tests
- define test classes and timebox each class (small/ large/ xlarge)
Managing Mocks
- Creating and manipulating Mock objects
- Setting up return values and side effects to control test environment
- Inspecting mocks - different ways to examine a mock object and find out what happened during the test
- How and where to patch
Testing the untestable: a beginner’s guide to mock objects
- Write tests
- Use mocks they are easy and fun patch is a great tool to inject mocks into your code
- I love sentinels - so should you
- Function side_effects are an "occasional treat"
- Never "over mock"
System Testing with pytest and docker-py
by Christie Wilson, Michael Tom-Wing
Async.IO
overview and cold start
The Report of Twisted's Death
Twisted, Tornado, Async.IO overview
Asynchronous network requests in a web application
- Use what fit your needs, or what needs to fit
- Tradeoff between speed and concurrency
- Beware of DNS resolutions
async/await in Python 3.5 and why it is awesome
Another cold start with async.io.
Python vs C/C++
Cython, CPython API, CFFI
Exploring Python Bytecode
What happens when you run Python code?
* with CPython
The Gilectomy
This talk will discuss the history of the GIL, how the GIL helps make CPython fast, how the “gilectomy” removed the GIL, and some ways we might be able to make the “gilectomy” version fast enough to be useful.
CFFI: calling C from Python
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using CFFI, you call C functions and manipulate C-pointer-like
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objects directly from Python
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you do in Python all logic involving Python objects
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there are no (official) ways around this API to call the CPython C
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API, and none are needed
Python in general
Some other good talks
Effective Code Review
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Keep reviewers on the same page
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Constructive criticism and Praise
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Be Polite and aware of tone
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GitHub, Gerrit, Phabricator,
GitLab, Review Board
Go for Python Programmers
It kind of implies writing/using Go as you would
write Python; which is bad because it leads to
un-idiomatic Go code.
Writing faster Python
- There are different kinds/levels of optimization
- Source code optimizations are cheap
- Don't reinvent a wheel
- Profile your code and be curious
Ethical hacking with Python tools
- Introduction Python pentesting
- Modules (Sockets, Requests, BeautifulSoup, Shodan)
- Analysis metadata
- Port scanning & Checking vulnerabilities
- Advanced tools
- Pentesting
Documentation-driven development
The returns on Django’s investment have been substantial, but some of them are also surprising. The documentation has clearly been key to the quality of the code itself, but also (less obviously) to the development of Django as a community project, and even the professional development of programmers who adopt Django.
Monkey-patching: a magic trick or a powerful tool?
The Python gives developers a great opportunity to use monkey-patching almost everywhere. But should developers do it? Is it a magic trick or a powerful tool? In this talk we will try to give the answers to these questions and try to figure out pros and cons of using monkey-
patching.
Building beautiful RESTful APIs using Flask
by Michal Karzyński
Coala
coala provides a common command-line interface for linting and fixing all your code, regardless of the programming languages you use.
- Allows use existing static analysis tools
- Support 54 programming languages (C/C++, Java, Python, etc.)
- Easy extend
Another tools worth mentioning
Bquery - agregation framework
https://github.com/visualfabriq/bquery
uvloop - asynchronous framewor, 2-4x times faster than asyncio
http://magic.io/blog/uvloop-blazing-fast-python-networking/
Ponyorm - framework which translate python into sql
Wiremock - mock & testing
Pretender - fake servers for testing
Main links
- EuroPython website: http://ep2016.europython.eu/
- EuroPython channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/EuroPythonConference
- My Twitter channel during conference: https://twitter.com/rembish
FIN
Radim Špigel
Aleksey Rembish
Seznam.cz, 2016