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Grumpy: Running Python on Go

Episode #95, published Wed, Jan 18, 2017, recorded Thu, Jan 12, 2017

Google runs millions of lines of Python code. The front-end server that drives youtube.com and YouTube’s APIs is primarily written in Python, and it serves millions of requests per second!

On this episode you'll meet Dylan Trotter who is working increase performance and concurrency on these servers powering YouTube. He just launched Grumpy: A Python implementation based on Go, the highly concurrent language from Google.

Links from the show:

Grumpy home page (redirects): grump.io
Grumpy at github: github.com/google/grumpy
Announcement post: opensource.googleblog.com/2017/01/grumpy-go-running-python.html
Dylan on Github: github.com/trotterdylan

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