PyConZA 2021
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Opening Ceremony | Sheena O'Connel, Kim van Wyk | 26m |
Conference runs fully online with each talk on a dedicated Discord channel per session and live on YouTube with the YouTube chat blocked so questions come only… | ||
| You don't need AI; You need to know what your data is. | Jade Abbott | 01h 01m |
Claims that 93% of data science projects never reach production leads to a concrete remedy: stop fetishizing models and fix data. Uses Wardley maps to show… | ||
| Efficient Data Handling Techniques in Python for Oracle Database | Christopher Jones | 42m |
Live Jupyter demos use cx_Oracle with Oracle Instant Client to show concrete gains: execute_many replaces thousand-loop inserts (example: 1,000 executes ≈2.0s… | ||
| Building Machine Learning demos with Python | Omar Sanseviero | 29m |
Shows how to turn a trained model into a shareable demo using ~15 lines of Python with Gradio or Streamlit, deployable to Hugging Face Spaces (free, git-based… | ||
| Developing Feasible Scenarios for Bioenergy Production in South Africa with Python | Hayden Wilson | 45m |
BioEnergy Atlas for South Africa models transport and siting costs and produces concrete outputs: a 48 million‑node road graph, millions of least‑cost off‑road… | ||
| Shopyo: Your Mega Machine For Flask | Abdur Rahmaan Janhangeer | 33m |
Shopyo packages Flask into a Django-like starter that actually runs production sites: modular apps called modules grouped into boxes, plug‑and‑play so copying… | ||
| Retries and Circuitbreakers in Takealot Microservices | Johan Beyers | 06m |
Takealot runs Python microservices and demonstrates a flaky endpoint that succeeds 5/10 calls then fails 5/10; naive retries hammer downstream pods… | ||
| Build Your First Cyber Forensic Application using Python | Gajendra Deshpande | 34m |
Claims a CheckPoint Research spike to 150,000+ attacks per week and a 30% rise during COVID‑19, outlines the six forensic steps (identification, collection… | ||
| The loop of Joy: helping kids (and grown-ups) enjoy code adventures | David Campey | 44m |
Claim: learning follows an idea → struggle → it works cycle called the loop of joy and deliberately designing exercises to hit that loop keeps learners… | ||
| Python & MariaDB: A Match? | Kaj Arnö | 40m |
Argues that Python pairs well with MariaDB because of concrete features and tooling: recommends MariaDB Server 10.6 for new projects and notes 10.7 is preview… | ||
| Django Rest Framework + Redux | Sheena O'Connell | 38m |
A package connects Django Rest Framework to Redux to manage API state and avoid reimplementing fetch/update logic across frontends, claiming normalized… | ||
| Thursday Lightning Talks | Nicholas De Kock, Adrianna Pińska, Simon Cross | 24m |
Three rapid demos show concrete results and usable artifacts: autoESDA produces a one-line run on a GeoDataFrame and spits out an HTML report with boxplots… | ||
| Welcome to Day 2 | Kim van Wyk, Sheena O'Connell | 12m |
Morning announcements note one talk is cancelled due to a family emergency and the schedule may shift; conference videos stay online unless a speaker requests… | ||
| Learning to speak a common language with BDD and pickled cucumbers | Richard Landers | 41m |
Team adopts behave and Gherkin/Cucumber to write executable Given When Then scenarios, spends about two to four months in a BDD-first phase using domain-driven… | ||
| Panel Discussion: Educating Coders | Sheena O'Connell | 01h 02m |
Umuzi runs a one-year course that splits each 4–6 week module into half classroom and half real build work, teaches Git, testing and TDD, and requires students… | ||
| Introducing PIP.Services, a new open-source toolkit for enterprise-level microservice creation | Eugenio Andrieu | 34m |
PIP.Services is an open-source component toolkit for building microservices with a six languages symmetric API (Python, Go, Node, Java, .NET, Dart). The demo… | ||
| Moving in Sync: Self-supervised learning of n-human interactions | Sonal Sannigrahi | 34m |
Introduces Sync-3D, a self‑supervised pipeline that feeds two tracked human crops through an I3D+SyncNet style siamese network trained with contrastive loss… | ||
| Optimize Your Database Operations with Asynchronous Processing | Radical Rakhman Wahid | 40m |
Live demo copies rows between two tables using coroutines and the event loop and shows SQLAlchemy 1.4 with PsycoPG/AsyncPG cutting insert time (example: ~14k… | ||
| Machine Learning Lifecycle Made Easy with MLflow | Karishma Babbar, Kalyan Munjuluri | 45m |
Describes using MLflow’s Tracking, Models, and Projects to record and reproduce experiments: concrete demo on the sklearn diabetes dataset trains an SGD… | ||
| The Future of Work | Agnes Muthoni | 05m |
Andela presents itself as a global talent marketplace that connects vetted remote engineers with companies such as GitHub, Goldman Sachs and ViacomCBS, claims… | ||
| Building a self-watering plant using Micropython on a WiFi-enabled Arduino ESP8266 | Anele Makhaba, Mpho Mphego | 44m |
A working self‑watering system runs on an ESP8266 running MicroPython, reads a capacitive soil moisture sensor over the ADC, averages ~10 samples, and checks… | ||
| Neural Prophet – A powerful AI framework for Time Series Models | Kalyan Prasad | 41m |
Shows Neural Prophet (Python library) using a Torch backend and a PyTorch AR-Net to extend Facebook Prophet’s decomposable model with trend, seasonality… | ||
| Fishfingers and Custard: An OpenStack and K8s Story | Kendall Nelson | 34m |
Three concrete integration patterns and real results: use containerized OpenStack (cola and openstack helm) to CI/CD daily builds and HA test deployments as SK… | ||
| Getting to Intermediate | John Ouellette | 41m |
Builds a minimally viable Yahoo Finance–style web app using Flask + MongoDB + Docker and the AlphaVantage API, runs it behind Gunicorn WSGI, experiments with… | ||
| Friday Lightning Talks | Bruce Merry, Lance Williams, Kim van Wyk, Dirk Uys, David Sharpe, Sheena O'Connell | 33m |
Event: PyConZA 2021
URL: https://2021.za.pycon.org/talks/lightning-talks/
The Friday lightning Talk session, which replaced the closing keynote after the… | ||
| Closing | Kim van Wyk, Sheena O'Connell | 13m |
Closing counts: 225 tickets sold, 24 speakers, and 168 questions asked through the conference bot, with 1,700+ YouTube views. One live quiz yields a single… | ||
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