Building data-driven web apps with Flask and SQLAlchemy Transcripts
Chapter: Welcome to the course
Lecture: The incredible power of web
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Before we dig in to all the code that we're going to write
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and the technologies we're going to use
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and the types of things we can even build
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Let's take a moment and admire
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the incredible power of the web.
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The web is one of the most flexible
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and certainly most widely deployed
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and used technologies out there.
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Think about YouTube.
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YouTube is an amazing web application.
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It really has brought video sharing to the entire world.
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It also happens to be a Python based web app
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and it handles millions of requests per second.
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Think about Airbnb.
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With this web application and a unique sharing philosophy
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they've literally transformed the way
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people travel and stay in cities.
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Netflix uses their web app
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to re-define TV for many, many people.
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In fact this web app and their infrastructure account
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for 35% of all the bandwidth used
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in the United States in the evenings.
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That's pretty incredible.
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Hey, while we're at it let's throw one more in there.
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You're taking an amazing course
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and you're going to be learning all about building web apps.
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So here is another one, Talk Python Training.
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This site is of course built on Python
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and has taught a ton of people about Python.
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In fact many of the techniques in lessons learned
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in building this site along with some of the others
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I'm going to bring into this course.
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So it's not just about looking at what's out there
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and seeing some incredible web apps built.
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It's also about taking the pretty amazing web app
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that I've built and taking the lessons
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and techniques that I've learned and share those with you.
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Dou you have an idea?
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Something you want to build for everyone?
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Well the techniques and technologies
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you're about to learn will let you unleash
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this incredible power of the web
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and bring your idea to life.
