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Re: Python at Netflix

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Post by elq »

rdtsc wrote: post #66
jedberg wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I believe we do have one or two people here looking at Go. Given our culture, there really is nothing stopping anyone from using it, other than the fact that they would have to figure out how to interact with the platform.

Anyone used or uses Erlang?

I know of at least one person that wrote a fairly significant chunk or erlang at netflix, but this was years ago just as we were moving into the cloud and now, as jedberg wrote, erlang would have a hard time working with the rest of the netflix stack.

Re: Python at Netflix

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Post by daemon13 »

jedberg wrote: post #26
arpineh wrote: post #3

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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 y…

I just posted this above: "I don't have any info about Sting, but we're working on some blog posts that go deeper into each of these topics. I'll make sure that the interest in Sting is accounted for in the prioritization." So now that's +2. :)

+3 please :-)

The idea of marrying "slow" Python and OLAP is disturbing my sleep!

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Post by yen223 »

jkldotio wrote: post #39

Python really does hit a sweet-spot for many types of operations. Devops capacity in system scripting, crawling and scraping with excellent web frameworks (Django through to Bottle). On top of all that there are great machine learning libraries as well as good APIs to almost anything not written in Python. My site gets huge amounts of NLP, machine learning and information extraction done in just a few lines because o…

Someone once said that Python is the second-best language for everything. I found that to be true.

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Post by cpenner461 »

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!

Hey jedberg - any plans/timeline for open sourcing aminator? It sounds pretty cool...

Re: Python at Netflix

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Post by belandrew »

lclarkmichalek wrote: post #50
sigzero wrote: post #43

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Some folks would consider this as an attempt to hijack the discussion. I am not saying that is what you are trying to do but what some folks would think. It gets tedious sometimes when the post is specifically about "Python at whatever" and people post "Hey you should use this language instead." Maybe that is why you were down voted. (FWIW, I did not down vote you.)

I posted this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5356913 today as a reply to someone who commented about Go on a post about programming languages today. It seems that (at least so far) I was correct.

Besides Google using Go for some things like part of Youtube and dl.google.com, CloudFlare, Heroku, Canonical, Torbit, SoundCloud, BBC, and others are using Go for parts of their back-end infrastructures.

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Post by donutdan4114 »

belandrew wrote: post #76
donutdan4114 wrote: post #74

Why does Netflix only allow 4-10 character passwords? My weak password is 14 characters. There is no reason to have a length limit.

My Netflix password is 20 characters. Where did you get that it only allows 4-10?

Trying to update my password: http://i.imgur.com/wLNpR0C.png
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