We have selected some speakers through random.choice() to be featured on the EuroPython 2011 blog! Today we introduce you Denis Bilenko!
### What's your name and what do you do? Denis Bilenko, I'm working on an awesome new startup [SiteSupport.com][1] that implements screen sharing for webapps. I'm mostly doing backend part where it's all Python with a few C/Cython pieces for performance. I also wrote and maintain Gevent, a coroutine-based network library for Python. ### How did you start using Python? My first Python program for which I wasn't the only user was a monitoring application for Particle Accelerator Detector at Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics. It was supposed to be written in C++, the standard language in the lab, but I was convinced Python is a better fit. My boss was skeptical but open-minded, so we gave it a try. The important part of it was making bindings for a couple C dependencies, where ctypes really simplified things. The project was a success and the development speed felt much more rapid. ### Name one Python feature you wouldn't live without The abundance of quality 3rd party packages besides already rich standard library. ### What is your talk/training about? It is about Gevent and how it makes life of a network/web application developer easier. If you already know what Gevent is, you'll find interesting what's coming in the next major release (the changes are quite serious). ### Tease us with one secret that will be revealed during your talk/training I'll tell what the next major release of Gevent (0.14) does differently when interacting with Python GC and how it affects your program. If you are not a user of Gevent yet, you might find revealing the fact that managing lots of concurrent connections does not have to be more complex than managing a single one in a simple script. ### Name another talk you wouldn't miss in the same track on the same day, and why. **Spotify and Python: love at first sight**. I'm curious about this one because Spotify is a prominent user of Gevent. ### What would you tell someone who is still in doubt whether to register to EuroPython or not? If you haven't been to EuroPython before, I recommend to attend, it's a great event to meet interesting, like-minded people. If you already attended, you probably would not have doubts. [1]: http://ep2011.europython.eu/sitesupport.com
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