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‎about-author.html‎

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<a href="/why-use-python.html" class="list-group-item smaller-item " style='font-family: "Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;'>Why Use Python?</a>
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<a href="/python-2-or-3.html" class="list-group-item smaller-item " style='font-family: "Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;'>Python 2 or 3?</a>
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<a href="/enterprise-python.html" class="list-group-item smaller-item " style='font-family: "Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;'>Enterprise Python</a>
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plan is for supporting Python 3 and why it has taken so long to make it
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<h1>Enterprise Python</h1>
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<p>One of the misconceptions around Python and other dynamically-typed languages
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However, almost all commercial and government enterprises already use
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Python in some capacity, either as glue code between disparate applications
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or to build the applications themselves. </p>
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<h2>What is enterprise software?</h2>
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<p>Enterprise software is built for the requirements of an organization rather
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than the needs of an individual. Software written for enterprises often
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needs to integrate with legacy systems, such as existing databases and
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non-web applications. There are often requirements to integrate with
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authentication systems such as the
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_Directory_Access_Protocol">Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)</a>
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and
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<a href="https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa746492%28v=vs.85%29.aspx">Active Directory (AD)</a>.</p>
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<p>Organizations develop enterprise software with numerous custom requirements
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to fit the specific needs of their operating model. Therefore the software
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development process often becomes far more complicated due to disparate
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factions within an organization vying for the software to handle their
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needs at the expense of other factions.</p>
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<p>The complexity due to the many stakeholders involved in the building of
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enterprise software leads to large budgets and extreme scrutiny by
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non-technical members of an organization. Typically those non-technical
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people place irrational emphasis on the choice of programming language and
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frameworks when otherwise they should not make technical design decisions.</p>
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<h2>Why are there misconceptions about Python in enterprise environments?</h2>
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<p>Traditionally large organizations building enterprise software have used
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statically typed languages such as C++, .NET and Java. Throughout the 1980s
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marketed these languages as "enterprise grade". The inherent snub to other
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languages was that they were not appropriate for CIOs' difficult technical
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<p>In addition, "scripting languages" such as Python, Perl and Ruby were not
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yet robust enough in the 1990s because their core standard libraries were
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still being developed. Frameworks such as <a href="/django.html">Django</a>,
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<a href="/flask.html">Flask</a> and Rails (for Ruby) did not yet exist. The Web was
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just beginning and most enterprise applications were desktop apps built
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for Windows. Python simply wasn't made for such environments.</p>
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<h2>Why is Python now appropriate for building enterprise software?</h2>
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<p>From the early 2000s through today the languages and ecosystems for many
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dynamically typed languages have greatly improved and often surpassed some
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aspects of other ecosystems. Python, Ruby and other previously derided
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languages now have vast, well-maintained open source ecosystems backed by
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both independent developers and large companies including Microsoft, IBM,
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Google, Facebook, Dropbox, Twilio and many, many others.</p>
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<p>Python's open source libraries, especially for
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<a href="/web-frameworks.html">web development</a> and data analysis, are some of the
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best maintained and fully featured pieces of code for any language.</p>
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<p>Meanwhile, some of the traditional enterprise software development languages
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such as Java have languished due to underinvestment by their major corporate
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there was a long lag time before Java was enhanced with new language features
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in Java 7. Oracle also
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<a href="http://www.engadget.com/2015/03/06/java-adware-mac/">bundles unwanted adware with the Java installation</a>,
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the language is open source and does not have a single corporate controller.</p>
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<p>Other ecosystems, such as the .NET platform by Microsoft have fared much
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better. Microsoft continued to invest in moving the .NET platform along
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throughout the early part of the new millennium.</p>
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<p>However, Microsoft's enterprise products often have expensive licensing fees
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for their application servers and associated software. In addition, Microsoft
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is also a major backer of open source, <a href="http://www.hanselman.com/blog/OneOfMicrosoftsBestKeptSecretsPythonToolsForVisualStudioPTVS.aspx">especially Python</a>,
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and their
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<a href="https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/features/python-vs.aspx">Python tools for Visual Studio</a>
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provide a top-notch <a href="/development-environments.html">development environment</a>.</p>
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<p>The end result is that enterprise software development has changed
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dramatically over the past couple of decades. CIOs and technical executives
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can no longer ignore the progress of Python and the great open source
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community in the enterprise software development landscape if they want to
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continue delivering business value to their business side customers.</p>
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<h2>Open source enterprise Python projects</h2>
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<p><a href="https://github.com/cfpb/collab">Collab</a> by the
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U.S. government's
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<a href="http://www.consumerfinance.gov/">Consumer Financial Protection Bureau</a>
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(CFPB) agency is a corporate intranet and collaboration platform for large
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<p><a href="https://github.com/twitter/pants">Pants</a> is a build system for software
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languages as is often the case in large organizations.</p>
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<p>There are a couple of solid demystifying articles in CIO magazine including
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and this article on
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<a href="http://www.cio.com/article/2431212/developer/dynamic-languages--not-just-for-scripting-any-more.html">why dynamic languages are gaining share for enterprise development</a>.</p>
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<p>JavaWorld wrote an interesting article about
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<a href="http://www.javaworld.com/article/2078655/scripting-jvm-languages/python-coming-to-the-enterprise--like-it-or-not.html">Python's inroads into enterprise software development</a>.</p>
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<p>I gave a talk at DjangoCon 2014 on
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMtiCX38w20">How to Solve the Top 5 Headaches with Django in the Enterprise</a>
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which covered both Python and Django in large organizations.</p>
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<p>This <a href="http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/141411/what-is-enterprise-software-exactly">StackExchange answer</a>
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<p>The end result is that enterprise software development has changed
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<p><a href="https://github.com/cfpb/collab">Collab</a> by the
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