#4: Enterprise Python and Large-Scale Projects

Talk Python To Me

Michael Kennedy

Technology

4.8 • 635 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2015

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Mahmoud is lead developer of the Python Infrastructure team at eBay/PayPal and he has some amazing facts and studies to discuss about the truths and myths using Python for _real_ projects. We discuss how eBay is using Python internally for many large-scale uses. Then we move on to discuss the 10 myths of enterprise Python, such as Python is not compiled, Python is weakly-typed, Python does not scale, and more.

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0:00.0	Talk Python to me.
0:01.7	Episode number four with guest, Mahmoud Hashemi, recorded Tuesday, April 7, 2015.
0:07.9	Thank you, I'm You may have noticed that we have new intro music for this show.
0:46.1	If you're a fan of the Developers Developers, Developers Music by Smix,
0:49.9	don't worry, he's not gone. He'll be back next time.
0:52.8	However, I chose this music for this show because it's actually not a performance,
0:57.7	but rather sounds from an auditory experience for Wikipedia called Listen to Wikipedia.
1:04.2	This is a project written in Python by our guest, Mahmoud.
1:08.1	We'll talk a little bit about that during the show.
1:10.9	The sounds you hear corresponds to edits, additions, and deletions to Wikipedia.
1:15.5	Reading off a few of the topics that cause those sounds are kind of random, but here they are.
1:20.1	Asphalt. Geography of Peru. Subobject. Fox.
1:24.4	2013 European Olympics. Pretty Little Liars, and Carrie's grammar school.
1:30.0	If you need some sweet Zen sounds to program to, or just interested in this project, check it out at listen.
1:36.7	com and experience Python and Wikipedia and audio all wrapped up into one for yourself.
1:44.2	That's listen.
1:45.4	Dot H-A-T-N-O-T-E.com.
1:49.5	Now, on to the show.
1:51.3	Hello and welcome to Talk Python to Me,
1:53.7	a weekly podcast on Python,
1:55.9	the language, the libraries, the ecosystems, and the personalities.
1:59.4	This is your host, Michael Kennedy.
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