ChennaiPy January 2020 Meetup - Meeting Minutes
The meetup was held on January 25, 2020, at IITM Chennai.
Introduction/Welcome Note
- Welcome to the attendees and thanks to the sponsor.
- Agenda for the day was explained.
- Set the context about the meetup and its purpose.
Talk 1: Types of System Architecture
Speaker: Roopashree
- Monolithic Architecture: Explained its pain points.
- Microservices: What they are and why they are preferred.
- Challenges: Discussed the challenges in building and deploying microservices.
- Solutions: Explained various methods to overcome challenges.
- Pros & Cons: Discussed scalability, load balancing, and caching in microservices.
Q&A:
- Q: How should we migrate from monolithic to microservices?
- A: Analyse the project, break it into smaller modules, and migrate one app at a time.
Talk 2: Understanding Air Pollution using Satellite Imagery
Speaker: Gokulavasan Murali
- Introduction to GIS: Geographic Information System used to plot and analyze pollution data from a vertical/satellite view.
- Sentinel: Used to collect pollution data.
- OSM: Used to collect city boundaries.
- EO-Learn: Introduced as a tool for processing satellite imagery.
- Demo: Showed Diwali pollution (+1 & -1 day) in Delhi and Chennai.
Talk 3: Developing Blockchain Apps using Python
Speaker: Abhinav Srivastava
- Blockchain Development: While Python is not used to build blockchain apps directly, it can be used with Vyper for Pythonic blockchain development.
- Blockchain Concepts: Explained Ethereum, Bitcoin, and key blockchain terms:
- Distributed Ledger
- Mining
- Consensus (Proof of Stake & Proof of Work)
- Transaction
- Currency (Ether)
- Smart Contract
- Tools: Vyper and Web3 for building blockchain apps.
Lightning Talks
- Zen of Python: A quick lightning talk on the philosophy of Python.
- Colonel: Demoed a few of his websites.
- Chocolate Padmanaban: Showed his way of visualizing Engineering maths using Python.
Thanks Note
Speaker: Vijay Kumar
- Thanks to all the attendees and speakers for making the meetup a success.
Group Photo with Attendees
The meetup concluded with a group photo and networking.
Meeting minutes contributed by Gopinath P.
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