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