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Work · May 3, 2018

Scaling Python

A book teaching how to build apps that scale to billions

Scaling Python launched on May 3, 2018 with 7 votes, #1,276 of 2,985 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 8 years on.

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What it does

Python makes it fast and easy to write applications. However, as soon as you want to write software that can handle vast piles of tasks and run at large scale, difficulties start to pile up. Scaling Python provides shortcuts on how to solve all this area in Python, from design to technical implementation. It lays out common traps and issues that Python developers might encounter, and explain how to solve them to write suitable distributed systems. The book includes seven interviews with Python developers and contributors who built resilient, large-scale systems. As they have years of experience, they share some of their tips and battlefields anecdotes.

The book that teaches you how to write scalable, distributed Python applications.

“Our app now handles thousands of users without a sweat. Thanks Julien!” – Igor Subira Python is an easy to learn programming language. Yet, it is powerful, versatile and comes with a luxuriant ecosystem. That makes it a very productive programming language for beginners and experts. Building substantial applications with Python is totally possible. Like many other technologies, mastering Python requires know-how, techniques, trade-offs to be made, and traps to avoid. Python is already trusted by thousands of companies using it a very large scale. Today's applications run on large and distributed infrastructures. They need to handle failure without blinking. In an environment where anything…from scaling-python.com

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