[Baypiggies] [Announcement] March 21 BayPIGgies Event!

[Phebe Polk]

BayPIGgies is hosting the first meeting of the year in person Thursday
March 21, 2024!  We are excited to see you again!

<https://baypiggies.net/baypiggies-03-32-2024-Testing-Data-SRE.html>
More Information Here
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Location:

San Jose Cambrian Library
1780 Hillsdale Ave
San Jose, CA 95124
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Schedule:
6:30 Socialize and grab food

6:45 Welcome and Announcements

6:55 Lightning Talk: The Fun World of SRE

7:05 Lightning Talk: Better Together: Unleashing the Synergy of Pandas,
Polars, and Apache Arrow

7:20 Main Talk: Mock It Till You Make It: How to Verify Your External Mocks
Without Ever Leaving Unittest

**** Lightning talks *****

-- "The Fun World of SRE" presented by Sangeetha Sridharan

Sangeetha Sridharan is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Palo Alto
Networks

-- "Better Together: Unleashing the Synergy of Pandas, Polars, and Apache
Arrow" presented by Chris Brousseau

Supercharge your data engineering workflows by merging the robustness of
Pandas with the high-speed capabilities of Polars, all underpinned by
Apache Arrow's in-memory technology. This technical deep-dive will unravel
the nuances between Pandas and Polars, showcase their newest features, and
demonstrate how to integrate them for optimal performance.

Chris Brousseau is Founder of Surface Owl and a data science consultant
focused on data engineering and NLP and visualizations. A native Vermonter,
Chris is an avid skier, and has lived in the Bay Area for over 25 years.

**** Main talk *****

-- "Mock It Till You Make It: How to Verify Your External Mocks Without
Ever Leaving Unittest" presented by Liz Acosta

A controlled environment and consistent dependencies are crucial to writing
good and – most importantly – relevant tests in Python. While the advent of
APIs has made using external services so much more accessible, APIs can
lead to flaky or deceptive tests, ultimately putting applications at risk.
In this talk, you will learn how to use Python’s Mock object to create more
reliable stand-ins for APIs beyond your control … all within the unittest
framework.

Liz Acosta is a lover of plants, pugs, pizza, and Python. Liz's diverse
professional experience and unconventional path to tech mean she brings a
unique perspective to engineering. She is an advocate who seeks to empower
developers from all aspects of life and learning.

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See you soon!
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