#215: The software powering Talk Python courses and podcast

Talk Python To Me

Michael Kennedy

Technology

4.8 • 635 Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2019

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Have you ever wondered about the software stack powering Talk Python, the training website, mobile apps, video and audio delivery, and more? While at first glance it might seem pretty simple, there's quite a bit going on. We have our own custom search engines. We deliver 15-20 TB of data per month. Our course video streams from 8 locations throughout the world. Our database server is sending about 12 MBit of traffic / sec with no media in the mix. And it's all powered with Python.

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0:00.0	Have you ever wondered about the software stack powering Talk Python, the training websites,
0:03.9	the mobile apps, the video and audio delivery, and more?
0:06.9	While at first glance, it might seem pretty simple.
0:09.4	There's quite a bit going on, actually.
0:11.6	We have our own custom search engines.
0:13.2	We deliver about 15 to 20 terabytes of traffic per month.
0:16.7	Our course video streams from eight locations throughout the world.
0:19.4	Our database server is sitting in about 12 megabits of traffic sustained all day, all night, with no media in the mix.
0:26.7	And all of this stuff is powered by Python.
0:29.1	So this week, it's a bit of a roll swap.
0:30.9	Dan Bader from Real Python is here to interview me about the Talk Python tech stack.
0:35.6	But we do get a chance to compare my tech stack with real pythons,
0:39.5	a site which is becoming quite an important one for developers in the Python world.
0:44.3	This is Talk Python to me.
0:45.7	Episode 215 recorded on scene at Pycon 2019 in Cleveland on May 6th, 2019.
1:09.5	Thank you. on May 6th, 2019. Welcome to Talk Python to me, a weekly podcast on Python, the language, the libraries, the ecosystem, and the personalities.
1:12.1	This is your host, Michael Kennedy.
1:13.9	Follow me on Twitter where I'm at M. Kennedy.
1:16.0	Keep up with a show and listen to past episodes at talk python.fm.
1:19.6	And follow the show on Twitter via at Talk Python.
1:22.3	This episode is sponsored by Linode and Backlog.
1:25.1	Please check out what they're offering during their segments.
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