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21Talks</span></a></div></nav></header><main class="py-10 md:px-0"><div class="max-w-2xl mx-auto"><h1 class="mx-3 md:mx-0 mt-2 mb-4 text-balance">Hynek On Big Stages</h1><div id=section-preamble><p>Since 2013, I have given many talks at many conferences and I prepare for each one <a href=/articles/speaking/>meticulously</a>.</p><p>If you’d like me to give a talk at your event, please <a href=/about/>get in touch</a>!</p></div><article class="pb-8 border-b border-slate-200 dark:border-slate-700 last:border-0"><header class=mb-2><h2 class="text-2xl py-2"><a class="no-underline text-heading dark:text-dark-heading hover:text-secondary dark:hover:text-dark-secondary" href=https://hynek.me/talks/python-superpower/>Python’s True Superpower</a></h2><div class="text-xs text-muted dark:text-dark-muted font-sans"><i class="pr-1 fa-sharp fa-calendar" alt=Published title=Published></i>
22<time datetime=2025-09-19>19 September 2025</time></div></header><section class="mx-3 md:mx-0"><p>Python appears to be everywhere nowadays! How did it happen, that a language that almost died in the Python 2 to 3 process is now the lingua franca a default choice when people talk about programming? There must be some secret superpower and I think I found it!</p><a class="text-xs underline underline-offset-2 decoration-secondary dark:decoration-dark-secondary" href=https://hynek.me/talks/python-superpower/>→ Read more</a></section></article><article class="pb-8 border-b border-slate-200 dark:border-slate-700 last:border-0"><header class=mb-2><h2 class="text-2xl py-2"><a class="no-underline text-heading dark:text-dark-heading hover:text-secondary dark:hover:text-dark-secondary" href=https://hynek.me/talks/design-pressure/>Design Pressure</a></h2><div class="text-xs text-muted dark:text-dark-muted font-sans"><i class="pr-1 fa-sharp fa-calendar" alt=Published title=Published></i>

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25<time datetime="22 May 2025">22 May 2025</time></div></header><section class="mx-3 md:mx-0"><p>Ever had this weird gut feeling that something is off in your code, but couldn&rsquo;t put the finger on why? Are you starting your projects with the best intentions, following all best practices, and still feel like your architecture turns weird eventually?</p><a class="text-xs underline underline-offset-2 decoration-secondary dark:decoration-dark-secondary" href=https://hynek.me/talks/design-pressure/>→ Read more</a></section></article><article class="pb-8 border-b border-slate-200 dark:border-slate-700 last:border-0"><header class=mb-2><h2 class="text-2xl py-2"><a class="no-underline text-heading dark:text-dark-heading hover:text-secondary dark:hover:text-dark-secondary" href=https://hynek.me/talks/subclassing/>Subclassing, Composition, Python, and You</a></h2><div class="text-xs text-muted dark:text-dark-muted font-sans"><i class="pr-1 fa-sharp fa-calendar" alt=Published title=Published></i>
26<time datetime=2023-04-22>22 April 2023</time></div></header><section class="mx-3 md:mx-0"><p>Ever seen a code base where understanding a simple method meant jumping through tangled class hierarchies? We all have! And while &ldquo;Favor composition over inheritance!&rdquo; is almost as old as object-oriented programming, strictly avoiding all types of subclassing leads to verbose, un-Pythonic code. So, what to do?</p><a class="text-xs underline underline-offset-2 decoration-secondary dark:decoration-dark-secondary" href=https://hynek.me/talks/subclassing/>→ Read more</a></section></article><article class="pb-8 border-b border-slate-200 dark:border-slate-700 last:border-0"><header class=mb-2><h2 class="text-2xl py-2"><a class="no-underline text-heading dark:text-dark-heading hover:text-secondary dark:hover:text-dark-secondary" href=https://hynek.me/talks/abstractions/>Classy Abstractions</a></h2><div class="text-xs text-muted dark:text-dark-muted font-sans"><i class="pr-1 fa-sharp fa-calendar" alt=Published title=Published></i>
27<time datetime=2020-05-18>18 May 2020</time></div></header><section class="mx-3 md:mx-0"><p>Let&rsquo;s talk about abstractions and Pythonic code.</p><a class="text-xs underline underline-offset-2 decoration-secondary dark:decoration-dark-secondary" href=https://hynek.me/talks/abstractions/>→ Read more</a></section></article><article class="pb-8 border-b border-slate-200 dark:border-slate-700 last:border-0"><header class=mb-2><h2 class="text-2xl py-2"><a class="no-underline text-heading dark:text-dark-heading hover:text-secondary dark:hover:text-dark-secondary" href=https://hynek.me/talks/python-foss/>Maintaining a Python Project When It’s Not Your Job</a></h2><div class="text-xs text-muted dark:text-dark-muted font-sans"><i class="pr-1 fa-sharp fa-calendar" alt=Published title=Published></i>
28<time datetime=2019-05-03>3 May 2019</time></div></header><section class="mx-3 md:mx-0"><p>PyPI is a gold mine of great packages but those packages have to be written first. More often than not, projects that millions of people depend on are written and maintained by only one person. If you’re unlucky, that person is you! This talk tries to lighten the burden by giving you useful tools and approaches.</p><a class="text-xs underline underline-offset-2 decoration-secondary dark:decoration-dark-secondary" href=https://hynek.me/talks/python-foss/>→ Read more</a></section></article><article class="pb-8 border-b border-slate-200 dark:border-slate-700 last:border-0"><header class=mb-2><h2 class="text-2xl py-2"><a class="no-underline text-heading dark:text-dark-heading hover:text-secondary dark:hover:text-dark-secondary" href=https://hynek.me/talks/deploy-friendly/>How to Write Deployment-friendly Applications</a></h2><div class="text-xs text-muted dark:text-dark-muted font-sans"><i class="pr-1 fa-sharp fa-calendar" alt=Published title=Published></i>
29<time datetime=2018-05-12>12 May 2018</time></div></header><section class="mx-3 md:mx-0"><p>The DevOps movement gave us many ways to put Python applications into production. But how can you practically structure and configure your applications to make them indifferent to the environment they run in? How do secrets fit into the picture? And where do you put that log file?</p><a class="text-xs underline underline-offset-2 decoration-secondary dark:decoration-dark-secondary" href=https://hynek.me/talks/deploy-friendly/>→ Read more</a></section></article><article class="pb-8 border-b border-slate-200 dark:border-slate-700 last:border-0"><header class=mb-2><h2 class="text-2xl py-2"><a class="no-underline text-heading dark:text-dark-heading hover:text-secondary dark:hover:text-dark-secondary" href=https://hynek.me/talks/reliability/>Solid Snakes or: How to Take 5 Weeks of Vacation</a></h2><div class="text-xs text-muted dark:text-dark-muted font-sans"><i class="pr-1 fa-sharp fa-calendar" alt=Published title=Published></i>
30<time datetime=2017-05-19>19 May 2017</time></div></header><section class="mx-3 md:mx-0"><p>No matter whether you run a web app, search for gravitational waves, or maintain a backup script: reliability of your systems make the difference between sweet dreams and production nightmares at 4am.</p><a class="text-xs underline underline-offset-2 decoration-secondary dark:decoration-dark-secondary" href=https://hynek.me/talks/reliability/>→ Read more</a></section></article><article class="pb-8 border-b border-slate-200 dark:border-slate-700 last:border-0"><header class=mb-2><h2 class="text-2xl py-2"><a class="no-underline text-heading dark:text-dark-heading hover:text-secondary dark:hover:text-dark-secondary" href=https://hynek.me/talks/prometheus/>Get Instrumented: How Prometheus Can Unify Your Metrics</a></h2><div class="text-xs text-muted dark:text-dark-muted font-sans"><i class="pr-1 fa-sharp fa-calendar" alt=Published title=Published></i>
31<time datetime=2016-05-31>31 May 2016</time></div></header><section class="mx-3 md:mx-0"><p>To get real time insight into running applications you need to instrument them and collect metrics: count events, measure times, expose numbers. That used to be a clusterfuck of technologies and approaches. Prometheus changes that.</p><a class="text-xs underline underline-offset-2 decoration-secondary dark:decoration-dark-secondary" href=https://hynek.me/talks/prometheus/>→ Read more</a></section></article><article class="pb-8 border-b border-slate-200 dark:border-slate-700 last:border-0"><header class=mb-2><h2 class="text-2xl py-2"><a class="no-underline text-heading dark:text-dark-heading hover:text-secondary dark:hover:text-dark-secondary" href=https://hynek.me/talks/beyond-grep/>Beyond grep: Practical Logging and Metrics</a></h2><div class="text-xs text-muted dark:text-dark-muted font-sans"><i class="pr-1 fa-sharp fa-calendar" alt=Published title=Published></i>
32<time datetime=2015-04-12>12 April 2015</time></div></header><section class="mx-3 md:mx-0"><p>Your Python applications are running but you’re wondering what they are doing? The only clue about their current state is the server load after <code>ssh</code>-ing into the servers? Let’s change that!</p><a class="text-xs underline underline-offset-2 decoration-secondary dark:decoration-dark-secondary" href=https://hynek.me/talks/beyond-grep/>→ Read more</a></section></article><article class="pb-8 border-b border-slate-200 dark:border-slate-700 last:border-0"><header class=mb-2><h2 class="text-2xl py-2"><a class="no-underline text-heading dark:text-dark-heading hover:text-secondary dark:hover:text-dark-secondary" href=https://hynek.me/talks/tls/>The Sorry State Of SSL</a></h2><div class="text-xs text-muted dark:text-dark-muted font-sans"><i class="pr-1 fa-sharp fa-calendar" alt=Published title=Published></i>
33<time datetime=2014-04-12>12 April 2014</time></div></header><section class="mx-3 md:mx-0"><p>TLS is the best technology we have for securing our communications. It comes with many sharp edges though. This talk tries to jumpstart a rough understanding and these links should help you to complete the picture.</p><a class="text-xs underline underline-offset-2 decoration-secondary dark:decoration-dark-secondary" href=https://hynek.me/talks/tls/>→ Read more</a></section></article><article class="pb-8 border-b border-slate-200 dark:border-slate-700 last:border-0"><header class=mb-2><h2 class="text-2xl py-2"><a class="no-underline text-heading dark:text-dark-heading hover:text-secondary dark:hover:text-dark-secondary" href=https://hynek.me/talks/python-deployments/>Solid Python Deployments for Everybody</a></h2><div class="text-xs text-muted dark:text-dark-muted font-sans"><i class="pr-1 fa-sharp fa-calendar" alt=Published title=Published></i>
34<time datetime=2013-03-16>16 March 2013</time></div></header><section class="mx-3 md:mx-0"><p>Without orientation, deployments of Python applications can be tiresome and even painful. This talk attempts to replace anxiety and pain through informed annoyance.</p><a class="text-xs underline underline-offset-2 decoration-secondary dark:decoration-dark-secondary" href=https://hynek.me/talks/python-deployments/>→ Read more</a></section></article></div></main><footer class="font-sans bg-shadowish dark:bg-slate-900"><div class=mx-auto><div class="flex justify-center pt-7 pb-1 text-3xl space-x-4"><a class="hover:text-black hover:bg-transparent text-primary dark:hover:text-white dark:text-dark-primary" href=https://www.youtube.com/@The_Hynek target=_blank rel=noopener title=YouTube><i class="fa-brands fa-youtube" alt="Hynek's YouTube channel"></i>
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