PyCon AU 2025

Noah Kantrowitz

Noah Kantrowitz is a web developer turned infrastructure automation enthusiast, and all around engineering rabble-rouser. By day he runs infrastructure at Geomagical/IKEA and by night he makes candy and stickers. He is an active member of the DevOps community, and enjoys merge commits, cat pictures, and beards.


What is your Mastodon/Fediverse handle?:

@coderanger@cloudisland.nz

What pronouns do you use?:

He/him


Session

09-13
13:30
30min
The Long Hello World
Noah Kantrowitz

Hello World is often used as a stand-in for "the simplest program", great for teaching and getting people started on their coding journey. But what really happens in that one line? This talk will be a deep dive into the Python interpreter, C libraries, Linux kernel, and beyond. We will poke holes in every abstraction and learn about our computers like never before, both to aid in debugging and to pick the best level of tooling for future development projects.

Main Conference
Ballroom 2