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Michael Kennedy

Portland
As seen in: Python Bytes, Talk Python To Me, Product Hunt, Lexology, Coda Story, CODE Magazine, NextByte1
A Python enthusiast and entrepreneur. Host of @TalkPython and @PythonBytes, founder of Talk Python Training. Python Software Foundation Fellow.
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Stroll Down Startup Lane - 2026

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By Michael Kennedy
| Talk Python To Me
Episode Deep Dive This episode is a walking tour, so instead of one guest we meet eight people across six segments. Jason D. Rowley is the co-organizer of Startup Row at PyCon US. He came to the program around 2015 as a financial journalist covering startups and venture capital, was talked into emceeing a pitch event in Chicago, and fell in love with the Python community. This is his 10th year organizing Startup Row, and he has been the primary organizer since 2019.
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OWASP Top 10 (2025 List) for Python Devs

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By Michael Kennedy
| Talk Python To Me
Episode Deep Dive Tanya Janca (aka SheHacksPurple) is returning to Talk Python To Me, and her resume keeps getting deeper. She's a former software developer who, as she puts it, "went to the dark side" into application security, and has since written two books on secure coding, the most recent being Alice and Bob Learn Secure Coding.
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Cutting Python Web App Memory Over 31%

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By Michael Kennedy
| mkennedy.codes
2026-04-01 python web performance devops async architecture 8 min read tl;dr; I cut 3.2 GB of memory usage from our Python web apps using five techniques: async workers, import isolation, the Raw+DC database pattern, local imports for heavy libraries, and disk-based caching. Here are the exact before-and-after numbers for each optimization. Over the past few weeks, I’ve been ruthlessly focused on reducing memory usage on my web apps, APIs, and daemons.
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