Speaker Profile: Eric Appelt (@appeltel)
I’m an IBM software engineer working in cloud data storage, with previous experience in big data working as a research physicist with the CMS experiment at the LHC. In my current role, I primarily use python to develop web services and distributed monitoring applications.
Eric will be presenting “A brief introduction to concurrency and coroutines” at 1:00PM Saturday (2/4) in the Auditorium. After a brief introduction to concurrency using a simple example, the talk will focus on understanding how coroutines have evolved in python through iteration protocol and generators, concluding with an explanation of the new async/await syntax through examples.
Sponsor Profile: Six Feet Up (@sixfeetup)
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