RULES FOR RADICALS: CHANGING THE CULTURE OF PYTHON
summary
Timeline and tactics for making Python 3 the default at Facebook: built deployable par (Python archive) packages and rewrote the pkg service in Python 3, added pyflakes linter and Python‑3 unit tests, and fixed hundreds of third‑party modules plus Thrift asyncio (tulip) support. The measurable result: after flipping the Python 3 default setting, Python 3 pars jump to ~4% in days and ~10% by Q3, with async IO deployed on hundreds of thousands of machines and steady weekly growth.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Intro
- 3:33Change takes time
- 11:44Python at Facebook
- 12:01Python 3 Problems
- 13:05Fixing the World
- 17:21Educating New Engineers
- 18:57The Truth of Python
- 19:52Python 3 at Facebook
- 20:42Making Python 3 the default
- 21:33Python 3 statistics
- 22:41Python 3 success
- 23:20Review
- 23:52Summary
- 24:08Collect Statistics
- 24:37Facebook Careers
- 24:52Questions
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