ChiPy, We have a great meeting planned for the October. Hope to see you there! Thank you GrubHub for sponsoring! *When:*Thur Oct 11, 2018, 6:30 p.m. 6:00pm Doors open 6:30pm: Meeting starts *How:*You can RSVP at chipy.org <http://www.chipy.org/> or via our Meetup <https://www.meetup.com/_ChiPy_/events/254781212/> group. *Where:* GrubHub 111 W. Washington Suite 2100 Chicago, IL *What:* - *Tour of job scheduling in Python* By: Raymond Buhr Experience Level: Novice Once you've started to learn python, you're going to want to use it to automate tasks. Their are lots of ways to do this, each with it's own set of pros and cons. This talk will go over a few options for scheduling the execution of python scripts and the tradeoffs that come with each. Tools that will be covered include crontab, schedule, celery, airflow, and cloud options AWS Lambda and GCP functions. - *Why Learn PySpark?* By: David Liao Experience Level: Novice GrubHub has chosen to adopt the Spark Big Data computing framework to underpin it’s internal GrubHub Data Platform Spark was adopted very early by Silicon Valley FANG companies.. What features make Spark a great computing platform for both Analytical reporting and Machine Learning? Tips on how to install PySpark on a Mac OSX system so one can play wit PySpark without paying for a cloud cluster - *Defining services with grpc and protocol buffers* By: Patrick Boland Experience Level: Intermediate gRPC and protocol buffers offer a high performance, open source way to define services and messages for the future. Think of it like REST, but for the http2 protocol. *Thank you always to all our sponsors, including our Diamond sponsors: Metis and TelnyxAlso thank you to our Platinum sponsors: Braintree, Imaginary Landscape, Lumere, and Signature Consultants. Also, thank you to our Silver sponsor: Markit.Please be aware of our code of conduct http://www.chipy.org/pages/conduct/ <http://www.chipy.org/pages/conduct/>* -- Joe J. Jasinski www.joejasinski.com