Talk Python member meetups

Our inaugural meetup tackles a simple question: has cloud computing gotten too complex? The AWS console alone offers 240+ services. Serverless, microservices, Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry - it's enough to make you question building the app at all.

This talk is the antidote. Carve out a focused corner of the cloud with no vendor lock-in. Ship with professional-grade isolation, availability, and speed. Run it as a single developer with little time for DevOps. And pay tens of dollars a month, not thousands.

I'll walk through the infrastructure behind Talk Python - the podcast, ecommerce site, course video platform, mobile app, and APIs. You'll leave with a concrete roadmap and real numbers.

Sebastián Ramírez, creator of FastAPI, joins us to talk about running FastAPI apps on FastAPI Cloud. We'll look at what it takes to go from code on your machine to a live app, and what "faster" can mean along the way. Bring your questions for Q&A.

Ever handed an AI agent a task and come back to a mess? Agentic coding tools are powerful. They are also easy to misuse. Without structure, an agent will happily wander off. It rewrites code you didn’t ask it to touch, then declares victory on code that’s broken.

In this session, Michael Kennedy walks through how he uses Claude Code to ship real software. You’ll see how he sets up a project so the agent has the context it needs, and how he scopes work into pieces an agent can actually finish. He’ll also cover the guardrails that keep it on track. The agent plans before it writes code and checks its own work. You learn to spot when it’s drifting, so you can stop it and take the wheel.