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Python at Massive Scale - Stephen Simmons, Neil Slinger

PyData · talk · Watch on YouTube

Python, Ruby & scripting languagesSoftware practice, open source & careers

What it is

A PyData London 2018 talk on how JPMorgan scaled its Athena Python platform over ten years to about 35 million lines of code and thousands of developers. It covers infrastructure, tooling and culture for analytics and visualization at that scale.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Cited as the definitive public account of Python at massive scale, especially in discussions of monorepos and bank Python.

  • 1 people recommended it
  • 1 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2018, last 2022

What HN commenters said

  1. “4500 developers making 20k commits a week. Codebase with 35m LOC.”

    Athena's origins, uses, architecture, infrastructure, dev tooling and culture.

    stevesimmons, 2020-07 · Recommendation · in “The most remarkable legacy system I have seen”

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Topics: jpmorgan, athena, monorepo, python, trading systems, developer tooling

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