Meetup Thursday, May 28th, 2026
The meeting will take place from 19:15 - 22:00. It will be held at Technolab in Leiden (How to reach us).
This includes free pizza provided by our food sponsor Samotics. (Soft drinks available at the Space Leiden bar for a small fee, tea, coffee and water are free). If you do not care about pizza, feel free to join us at 20:00!
Contents of the meeting
At this meeting, we have these three talks planned:
Talk 1: Creative coding with Joy by Sudha Parimala
Joy is a creative coding library for Python that makes it easy to create graphics. In this talk, Sudha will introduce Joy and demonstrate how to use it to create interesting shapes and animations.
Talk 2: Baking Reliability into Everyday Python by Farid Nouri Neshat
In this talk, Farid will share some stories about his experiences of trying to make something that is unreliable such as his last job’s data pipeline or the websites that kept dying by small scale DDoS to be more reliable and how to do that in particularly with Python. He will talk about practical defensive coding you can actually use at work tomorrow. He’ll go over how to protect your code from bad dependencies using strict timeouts and smart retries, and how queues and limiting concurrency to keeps your database from crashing under load. He’ll also touch on handling failures gracefully and importance of idempotency.
Talk 3: FastAPI-Restly by Rutger Prins
Showcase of FastAPI-Restly. What is it? Why use it? How to use it? And we’ll deep-dive into some of the magic that was necessary to enable class-based FastAPI views.
About our meetups
Our talks happen in a friendly and informal setting. They are a great way to learn new things, share your knowledge, and meet other Python enthusiasts. There is always room for questions and discussion. Our presentations and talks are in English to be accessible for the large amount of non-Dutch speakers in the Python community.
How to register
The meetup is free of charge. Drinks are available for a small fee. We ask for a small donation to help cover small expenses, but this is not required. To register, sign up on our Meetup event page. Meetup accounts let you receive notifications for future events and allow us to track attendance.
We’re excited to meet you and have you be a part of the Python community in Leiden. See you there!
