Where is Python used?

Testimonials of big companies using Python. Presented as opening part of the Pymug's Py session at UoM

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1. Where Is Python Used?
3. Python Mauritius UserGroup (pymug) More info: mscc.mu/python-mauritius-usergroup-pymug/
4. Where Are We? Why Where codes github.com/pymug share events twitter.com/pymugdotcom ping professionals linkedin.com/company/pymug all info pymug.com discuss facebook.com/groups/318161658897893 tell friends by like facebook.com/pymug
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6. Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer python developer twitter: @osdotsystem github: github.com/abdur-rahmaanj www.pythonmembers.club
7. Where Is Python Used? Python is simple to get started with, great to have at hand, quick for prototypes, has some serious applications, improves constantly and continues to sneak in ever new fields. Let's see some applications
8. World's most popular language
9. Ai
10. Tesla: A Python Story Tesla integrates cutting edge techonlogies for it's cars
11. auto navigation automatic lane change
12. auto summon: call your car like it's a pet
13. view of feed with contours identified
15. identifies beyond contours
16. training size (no. of images input)
17. Add to it: 800, 000 auto summon sessions
18. Lib behind Computer Vision: PyTorch Primarily developed by Facebook's AI Research lab
19. How Big Companies Use Python? References at the end of slides ~
20. At LinkedIn we ship hundreds of command line utilities to every machine in our data-centers and all of our employees workstations. The vast majority of these utilties are written in Python. (shiv docs)
21. Instagram Server is entirely Python powered. Well, mostly. (instagram- engineering.com)
23. We decided that Python was fast enough for most of what we need to do (since we push our performance-critical code to backend servers written in C++ whenever possible). As far as typechecking, we ended up writing very thorough unit tests which are worth writing anyway, and achieve most of the same goals. We also had a lot of confidence that Python would continue to evolve in a direction that would be good for the life of our codebase, having watched it evolve over the last 5 years. (CEO of Quora) Psst: type checking on large codebases is a common argument on why not to use Python, that's why he included it above.
24. Python aficionados are often surprised to learn that Python has long been the language most commonly used by production engineers at Facebook. (engineering.fb.com)
25. Our Data Science and Engineering teams rely heavily on Python to help surface insights from the vast quantities of data produced by the organization (netflix-techblog)
26. Python is heavily used by the Facebook infrastructure teams and is ubiquitous in production engineering (engineering.fb.com)
27. The Dropbox desktop client is written in Python, it's one of if not the largest piece of desktop client software that is out, and Dropbox has 400 million users (Director Of Engineering At Dropbox)
28. The other thing that keeps us on Python, and this is the major thing, is how readable and writable it is. When we hire new employees … I don’t think we’ve yet hired an employee who knew Python. I just say, “everything you write needs to be in Python.” Just so I can read it. (Reddit Co-founder)
29. Spotify’s backend consists of many interdependent services, connected by own messaging protocol over ZeroMQ. Around 80% of these services are written in Python (Spotify Labs)
30. Pinterest is powered by a large Python codebase (pinterest-engineering)
31. We intend in our coming sessions cover a LOT of Python topics, as long as you are at home. Topics include web, desktop, Ai, devops, webscraping ...
32. Stay updated with Python news in Mauritius https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/pymug.python.org/
33. References: DataIsBeautiful, evidenced by https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019 PyTorch At Tesla, Andrej Karpathy Quotes references pulled from: https://github.com/Abdur- rahmaanJ/pytestimonials Icons from iconfinder