HarshCasper / PyCon-MY-2021

Slides and Code for the PyCon Malaysia 2021 talk

PyCon MY 2021

This repository hosts the slides and examples for PyCon MY 2021 talk on "Building Polyglot applications using MetaCall Core". The speakes for the conference can be viewed on the Speakers Page and the schedule can be viewed on the Schedule Page. The recordings would be soon released.

Setup

To setup the slides on your local machine, follow these steps:

1. Install hugo

2. For development:

   hugo server -D

3. In config.toml set baseURL to be the baseURL of your hosted website.

4. To build and serve it using Docker, push the following command:

   docker run --rm -it \
     -v $(pwd):/src \
     -p 1313:1313 \
     klakegg/hugo:0.83.1 \
     server

Examples

The instructions to run the examples are given in the individual README.md for each example. To make sure the examples run, install the MetaCall CLI:

curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/metacall/install/master/install.sh | sh

• Calculation Demo: Example to showcase cross-language function calls between Python and JavaScript.
• Google News Scrapper: Polyglot Scrapping API to showcase a Python scrapping script being used in an Express API.
• Machine Learning-based News scrapper: Polyglot Node App using a Python script to scrap similar news articles from all over the Web using Machine Learning.

Acknowledgements

The slide format is inspired from Anirudh Dagar's Quansight Labs Internship talk and Thomas J. Fan's Hugo+Reveal Slide template.