Richard D. Copeland, Jr.

This intermediate-level talk will teach you techniques using the popular NoSQL database MongoDB and the Python library Ming to write maintainable, high- performance, and scalable applications. We will cover everything you need to become an effective Ming/MongoDB developer from basic PyMongo queries to high- level object-document mapping setups in Ming.

There has been a lot of talk lately about how Node.js enables the real-time web, but did you know you can do the same thing with Python? This talk will show you how to use Gevent, ZeroMQ, and Socket.io to build portable Python- powered real-time web applications.