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- Benno Rice11 talks
- Chris Krycho9 talks
- Gail Ollis8 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| Shipping Python Extensions in Rust Two Million Times a Day | PyCon US 2022 | 2022-04-27 |
pyca/cryptography moves core extension code to Rust using PyO3 and setuptools-rust, lands about seven upstream PRs and several thousand lines to add abi3… | ||
| Writing Linux Kernel Modules in Safe Rust | Linux Security Summit North America 2019 | 2019-08-19 |
65% of kernel CVEs are memory‑unsafety bugs, so a Rust-based module framework is built that uses bindgen and cargo‑xbuild with clang/LLVM interoperability… | ||
| Learning From Failure: Post Mortems | PyCon 2018 | 2018-05-11 |
Explains how to run a blameless post-mortem that turns a 17‑minute site outage (one example) and a kube cluster scale.sh mistake that causes ~1 hour total… | ||
| Code review for Open Source | Open Source Bridge 2014 | 2014-06-24 |
Argues that code review raises the bus factor, improves readability and culture, and should be mandatory before merge; recommends concrete tools… | ||
| Alex Gaynor (Rackspace) interviewed at Fluent 2014 | Fluent 2014 | 2014-03-11 |
Rackspace describes a practical path from code to hosted app, claiming developers can automate deployment and infrastructure management rather than… | ||
| Why Ruby Isn't Slow | Strange Loop 2013 | 2013-09-18 |
Claim: Ruby can be fast when its VM eliminates hash lookups and boxing rather than changing the language. Implementation: a VM called Topaz built on… | ||
| Keynote: A divided web, a review of the role of frameworks | DjangoCon AU 2013 | 2013-07-05 |
Argument: the web splits into heavy client and heavy server work, and frameworks mostly make existing things easier rather than invent new capabilities. Django… | ||
| Computer Science, Software Engineering, and the Scientific Method | PyCon Australia 2013 | 2013-07-05 |
Argues that software sits between engineering, science and art and that concrete improvements come from using scientific practice: double down on testing… | ||
| Rethinking the Reusable Application Paradigm | DjangoCon US 2010 | 2010-09-07 |
For the past few years the reusable application paradigm has been
considered one of the major selling points of Django, however the common
wisdom about what it… | ||
| PyPy and Unladen Swallow: Making your Python Fast | PyOhio 2010 | 2010-07-31 |
PyPy and Unladen-Swallow: Making your Python Fast
Presented by Alex Gaynor
Python has a reputation for being a bit slow, but it doesn't have to be
that way… | ||
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