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Re: Python at Netflix

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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 know how Google claims that by saving fractions of a second for every search that billions of people do, they've saved many man-lives of productivity? As a leading engineer at both Reddit and Netflix, you've undone all of that. Well done.

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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!

We were actually talking about your company in our sprint planning meeting a few minutes ago, since we're doing in-house Python analytics. You might be getting a call.

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Re: Web applications in python - I am curious about the overall feeling for them - Do you write web apps in python because rapid development makes up for any performance problems and if you run into problems you would rewrite it in something faster, or do you feel like a python web app can be just as good as alternatives when it comes to speed?

Put another way - when you think of python for web applications / services - do you think rapid development and speed, or just rapid development and you would go somewhere else for speed?

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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 know how Google claims that by saving fractions of a second for every search that billions of people do, they've saved many man-lives of productivity? As a leading engineer at both Reddit and Netflix, you've undone all of that. Well done.

Unfair tone. I hope it was in jest. My life is not all about productivity. There is a leisure aspect as well:

http://en.chessbase.com/home/TabId/211/PostId/4008728

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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!

Where can I find more info about Sting? I didn't see a link in the article and some quick Google searches haven't proved fruitful.

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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?

If I had to guess, I would say because GP didn't actually give any real reasons why adding complexity (a new language) would improve or solve a problem. Advocating languages is fine, we all have our pet languages, but it is important to remember they each are just one tool in the toolbox and that what is more important is how the language solves the problem well, instead of just blindly advocating one language over another.

Re: Python at Netflix

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Re: Web applications in python - I am curious about the overall feeling for them - Do you write web apps in python because rapid development makes up for any performance problems and if you run into problems you would rewrite it in something faster, or do you feel like a python web app can be just as good as alternatives when it comes to speed? Put another way - when you think of python for web applications / service…

I don't think anybody equates Python with execution speed. Writing web applications in Python facilitates rapid development, and since most of the web applications are io bound, slow execution speed doesn't make noticeable difference.

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Re: Web applications in python - I am curious about the overall feeling for them - Do you write web apps in python because rapid development makes up for any performance problems and if you run into problems you would rewrite it in something faster, or do you feel like a python web app can be just as good as alternatives when it comes to speed? Put another way - when you think of python for web applications / service…

I don't think anybody equates Python with execution speed. Writing web applications in Python facilitates rapid development, and since most of the web applications are io bound, slow execution speed doesn't make noticeable difference.

So when you think of execution speed in web applications / services - what do you think of?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

You know how Google claims that by saving fractions of a second for every search that billions of people do, they've saved many man-lives of productivity? As a leading engineer at both Reddit and Netflix, you've undone all of that. Well done.

Unfair tone. I hope it was in jest. My life is not all about productivity. There is a leisure aspect as well: http://en.chessbase.com/home/TabId/211/PostId/4008728

I hoped the "of productivity" would be a cue that I was being playful.

Re: Python at Netflix

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post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unfair tone. I hope it was in jest. My life is not all about productivity. There is a leisure aspect as well: http://en.chessbase.com/home/TabId/211/PostId/4008728

I hoped the "of productivity" would be a cue that I was being playful.

ah, did not catch that - sorry :)
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