Yesterday I attended a Python user group meeting in Ghent. It was interesting and I'm glad I joined despite this week being my first in my new position.

They were 3 talks:

• First talk was about Design Patterns in Python: after a brief presentation of the famous book from the GoF, the speaker explained a few patterns that are often used in Python code without necessarily knowing they're patterns. He mentioned the website python-patterns as a reference for Python dev who want to know more.

• Second talk was about using testcontainers in Python tests. It uses Docker instances to mimic the behavior of a Postgres database, a Message broker, etc. It looks interesting if you want to write kindof integration tests with minimal setup. Afterwards I found some information there.

• Last one was about machine learning and MLOps and at that point I was pretty exhausted. Since I'm ignorant about the topic, the presentation was harder to follow. But the guy was really enthusiastic! He talked about a open-source tool called MLFlow that seems useful for people building AI/ML models.

Overall a good experience: I didn't feel like a complete fraud 💪🏻 and I enjoyed the impressive office of the company that was hosting 😮!