Python at Netflix

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Post by Lightning » Mon, Mar 11, 2013, 3:52 PM UTC

Re: Python at Netflix

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Post by jedberg » Mon, Mar 11, 2013, 3:59 PM UTC

As one of the main drivers of Python at Netflix, this one is near and dear to my heart. Let me know if you have any questions, or come visit our booth!

Re: Python at Netflix

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Post by arpineh » Mon, Mar 11, 2013, 4:34 PM UTC

jedberg wrote: post #2

As one of the main drivers of Python at Netflix, this one is near and dear to my heart. Let me know if you have any questions, or come visit our booth!

Hi.

There was many interesting things listed at the blog post. I have been planning a system similar in idea to Sting, your OLAP server (?).

I'm planning a light RPC style system on top of Pandas dataframe objects, transferring HTTP requests to Pandas method calls. Memory usage of such a system with our data is too expensive if all data is in use. So, I'm investigating possible caching and database solutions.

Could you perhaps elaborate on the implementation of Sting's in memory database?

[posted from yet another HN account]

Re: Python at Netflix

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Post by yellow » Mon, Mar 11, 2013, 4:34 PM UTC

jedberg wrote: post #2

As one of the main drivers of Python at Netflix, this one is near and dear to my heart. Let me know if you have any questions, or come visit our booth!

I'm pushing for more python use at my company as well. It's tough as everyone is drinking the ruby kool-aid.

P.S. I really enjoyed your talk at QCon SF last year!

Re: Python at Netflix

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Post by e1ven » Mon, Mar 11, 2013, 4:42 PM UTC

jedberg wrote: post #2

As one of the main drivers of Python at Netflix, this one is near and dear to my heart. Let me know if you have any questions, or come visit our booth!

Keep it up!

Posts like these are great on a tech level, but they're also good recruitment - Seeing Python, along with hackers that I respect (like you) at Netflix make me at least the littlest bit tempted to go there ;)

Re: Python at Netflix

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Mar 11, 2013, 4:47 PM UTC

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Re: Python at Netflix

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Post by voidlogic » Mon, Mar 11, 2013, 4:51 PM UTC

As a Java/Python shop I think Netflix should evaluate Go after 1.1 RC comes out in April. Go is very popular with people who have heavily used both Java and Python (as well as C).

Re: Python at Netflix

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Post by irahul » Mon, Mar 11, 2013, 5:07 PM UTC

yellow wrote: post #4

jedberg wrote: post #2

As one of the main drivers of Python at Netflix, this one is near and dear to my heart. Let me know if you have any questions, or come visit our booth!

I'm pushing for more python use at my company as well. It's tough as everyone is drinking the ruby kool-aid. P.S. I really enjoyed your talk at QCon SF last year!

> It's tough as everyone is drinking the ruby kool-aid.

Ruby and Python are similar in terms of execution speed and developer productivity. If your work requires something that Python has and Ruby doesn't(say numpy), then it might make sense; otherwise what would you accomplish by switching from Ruby to Python?

Re: Python at Netflix

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Post by pwang » Mon, Mar 11, 2013, 5:16 PM UTC

jedberg wrote: post #2

As one of the main drivers of Python at Netflix, this one is near and dear to my heart. Let me know if you have any questions, or come visit our booth!

You should also come by our booth (Continuum Analytics) and we can talk shop!

Re: Python at Netflix

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Post by robertfw » Mon, Mar 11, 2013, 5:25 PM UTC

voidlogic wrote: post #7

As a Java/Python shop I think Netflix should evaluate Go after 1.1 RC comes out in April. Go is very popular with people who have heavily used both Java and Python (as well as C).

Just curious, why would this be downvoted?