Enterprise Python: Software That Lives Long And Prosper

As software “eats the world”, applications continue to grow in complexity. Nowhere is this phenomenon more prevalent than in enterprises, where operational scale and headcount has made it impossible to have a complete mental model of the situation. Engineers have strong opinions about which programming languages are best, but for a long time, Java reigned supreme at big companies. That is no longer the case. Without anyone really noticing the shift, Python disrupted Java to become the de facto programming language for enterprises. It did so precisely because it tackled the problems that came from building enterprise software in a way that Java could not. How is that so? What does Python offer that radically changed how software gets built at organizations big and small? And how newer languages that came along, such as Go and Rust, haven’t been able to put a dent on its dominions, and were forced to recede into niche use cases? This talk will answers these questions, and more.