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!
Python at Netflix
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#12As 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!
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#13Put 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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#14As 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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#15As 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!
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#16As 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?
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#17Re: 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…
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#18Re: 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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#19Earlier 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
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#20Earlier 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.