Rules for Radicals: Changing the Culture of Python at Facebook

Jason Fried
http://pyohio.org/schedule/presentation/212/
Today, services built on Python 3.5 using asyncio are widely used at Facebook. But as recently as May of 2014 it was actually impossible to use Python 3 at Facebook. Come learn how we cut the Gordian Knot of dependencies and social aversion to the point where new services are now being written in Python 3 and existing codebases have plans to move to Python 3.5.

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