Building data-driven web apps with Pyramid and SQLAlchemy Transcripts
Chapter: Welcome to the course
Lecture: What can you build with Python?
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When we talked about the incredible power
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of the web, we saw some amazing web apps built.
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Only some of them were built with Python.
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Let's look at a whole bunch of other apps
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web apps, built with Python.
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I think it's always great to have some examples.
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You know, maybe you're trying to convince your team
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or your boss, or something like that.
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"Hey, we should build this particular app we're trying
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to launch in Python and here are five examples
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of other apps that are similar, that are amazing."
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So let's go through a quick list
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to give you some ammunition.
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You might be familiar with The Onion.
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This is a fake news comedy site that's hilarious.
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They post all sorts of crazy, outrageous news items
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and that, of course, is built on Python.
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Spotify, the music streaming service, their web app, Python.
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NASA and JPL make heavy use of Python
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for all their awesome space stuff.
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Bitly, the URL shortening site that gets tons of traffic
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does all sorts of analytics and stuff
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around the URLs they shorten, Python.
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Bitbucket, SurveyMonkey, Quora
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what I think one of the very best online Q&A forums for
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thoughtful, somewhat deep answers.
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Not always great but pretty good, built with Python.
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They're actually pretty enthusiastic users of Python.
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If you look at their engineering blog
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they often write about how they use and configure
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and optimize Python for what they're doing.
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Disqus the comment section that you can embed
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into any web application.
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If you go to either of my podcast sites, talkpython.fm
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or pythonbytes.fm, you'll see at the bottom
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this little Disqus section.
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That is built with Python.
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Many of their services are based on Python.
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Instagram, an incredible amount of traffic goes
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to Instagram, and they make heavy use and, again
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are very passionate users of Python
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and their engineering blog covers a lot of cool things
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like how they disabled garbage collection, for example
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to make their web apps run much faster.
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Reddit, the front page of the internet, as some say
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gets tons of traffic, I think it's in
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the top ten websites on the internet
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built with Python and SQLAlchemy.
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Youtube, we already talked about that.
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Youtube is amazing, they get millions of requests
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per second and are based on Python.
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The brand new relaunched PyPI, the Python Package Index
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at pypi.org, is built with Python and Pyramid.
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They get tons and tons of traffic
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and they actually tried Flask, they tried Django
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and they tried Pyramid and they decided Pyramid was
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the best choice for what they were building.
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Pinterest, also built on Python.
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Paypal has some of their pricing services written
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in Python, and these pricing services are called
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by different parts of Paypal's infrastructure
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and other services and websites to figure out
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what the exchange rate is, what the fee is
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that goes along with various transactions and so on.
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That has two to three billion requests per day
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written in Python with sub-millisecond
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maybe just single millisecond response time.
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It's pretty incredible.
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Dropbox is a heavy user of Python, the client you get
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on your machine, as well as much of
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their backing services, Python.
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In fact, Guido van Rossum, the guy
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who created Python, works there
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at least at the time of this recording
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so you can bet that it's a real
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center of the universe around Python.
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And, last but not least, Talk Python.
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All the Talk Python stuff, the training site
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the podcast site, all that stuff is based
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on Pyramid and Python.
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It's been working out amazing.
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We get incredible, high-performance web apps
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that are easy to maintain.
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We'll share a lot of the lessons
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from that experience in this course.
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Want to read more about all of these
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how these companies are using Python?
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Well, how about we use a little Python to get there.
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Bitly/pyapp-25, that'll take you over
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to an article where I pulled a lot of this stuff together
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with more background info than I put in here.
