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We will cover the limits we faced with Docker builds and container provisioning, various options we explored, and why we settled on PEX.\r\n\r\n[PEX](https://pex.readthedocs.io) is a tool that packages Python code and dependencies into a single file. It provides various features such as determinism (given the same input files, you get a bit-for-bit identical output file), isolation (a PEX file runs in the bundled environment, isolated from the system\u2019s site-packages), composition (multiple PEX files can be combined to form new environments), and more. We used a number of these feature to great effect in our solution. By using PEX in addition to Docker we were able to reduce the time a developer waits for code to deploy from 3-4 minutes to about 30 seconds.\r\n\r\nShipping code isn't the only use for PEX. 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He likes [questioning established boundaries](https://shalabh.com/programmable-systems/) in software architectures.", "answers": []}], "links": [], "attachments": [], "answers": []}, {"url": "https://pretalx.northbaypython.org/nbpy-2023/talk/Z8YBXQ/", "id": 41, "guid": "49e0a9d3-b5ab-557b-b476-431534b1b237", "date": "2023-07-29T15:40:00-07:00", "start": "15:40", "logo": null, "duration": "00:25", "room": "The Barn", "slug": "nbpy-2023-41-back-to-the-future-of-hypermedia-in-python", "title": "Back to the Future of Hypermedia in Python", "subtitle": "", "track": null, "type": "Talk", "language": "en", "abstract": "\"Hypermedia is your friend,\" they said. \"You don't need JavaScript anymore,\" they said. \"You'll be _fine_...\"\r\n\r\nIt's no secret that hypermedia has been making a quiet resurgence in the web development landscape. One of the most popular toolkits in the Python space is htmx, offering a simple, declarative approach to AJAX, CSS Transitions, and Server Sent Events directly from your HTML.\r\n\r\nAdditionally, tools like TailwindCSS are making it easier to design your application simply by adding preconfigured CSS classes to your HTML elements. There's no need to meddle around with a CSS file or fear that completely changing your design will increase bloat or introduce clashing code.\r\n\r\nYou can now build a beautiful and responsive application with nothing more than Python and HTML!\r\n\r\nLet's take a look at some of the tools that exist to enable the PyHAT (Python htmx ASGI Tailwind) stack and discuss where we can go from here.", "description": null, "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"guid": "591fe6d2-becd-5304-91bd-516772531a13", "id": 31, "code": "BBSBB3", "public_name": "Mario Munoz", "avatar": "https://pretalx.northbaypython.org/media/avatars/BBSBB3_YGwjSGm.jpeg", "biography": "I code Python by night, which is what happens when there's not enough time during the day. In the past couple of years, I've presented several talks/tutorials at PyCon US, DjangoCon US, Python Web Conference, and others. Sometimes I neglect/blog on my website [Python By Night](https://pythonbynight.com), and start (and abandon) too many side projects.", "answers": []}], "links": [], "attachments": [], "answers": []}, {"url": "https://pretalx.northbaypython.org/nbpy-2023/talk/AAS398/", "id": 53, "guid": "8811be4a-0622-5b24-987b-0e198da79d05", "date": "2023-07-29T16:10:00-07:00", "start": "16:10", "logo": null, "duration": "00:35", "room": "The Barn", "slug": "nbpy-2023-53-beyond-programming-paradigms-with-python-examples-", "title": "Beyond Programming Paradigms (with Python examples)", "subtitle": "", "track": null, "type": "Talk", "language": "en", "abstract": "Java is object oriented and Haskell is functional. How about Python?\r\nIs it really OO with free-standing functions and porous encapsulation?\r\nPython has lambdas and closures, but is it functional? 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