There’s a perk to having a system that keeps itself updated and learns its works in new ways the humans develop. It makes the whole process so much easier and convenient. The whole thing is designed through algorithms that formulate how the learning process is going to proceed. This algorithm is implemented through code that is interpreted by the machine to implement. This coding can be done through various platforms and languages.
One such emerging and popular language today is Python.
Python is a programming language that is being widely used for web application development. It is also used in machine learning and AI fields. It is a simpler and more versatile language has led to it being used by various platforms. And even major companies use it to work their system and are a part of a lot more of the world than we know about. It is an accolade in itself. Most developers are free to choose the language they want to work. Yet a maximum percentage chooses to work with Python.
So, in no particular order, here are some of the top companies that use Python language as a part of their system.
Have a look at the big companies using Python today:
1. Google
So starting off with a well-known company, Google. Chances are you have no idea about the other companies on the list. But there is no escaping this giant of a company. Python was a prominent part of the company’s system since its beginning. The language runs in Google’s internal system and shows up in many of its APIs. It is used in different parts of Google. The web application building tool, the Google App Engine. The video viewer and administration, template control, canonical data access on YouTube. Along with these, Python is used in the Google build system, some administration tools, internal packaging format, and binary data pusher, among many others.
2. Facebook
The social media giant makes use of the language in its production engineering departments. There are teams that maintain a Python client library and binaries, providing an interface to other teams they want to interact with. These python libraries reduce the amount of codes that the production engineers have to work through. The codes are written and committed to Python utilities and services for the binary distribution, operational automation, infrastructure management, and many more purposes. Around 21% of the Facebook infrastructure is of Python codebase, which is millions of lines of codes and thousands of libraries and binaries.
3. Netflix
Over at Netflix, Python is used more to deal with the security problem. The most important part being helping to solve the problem of ambiguity. Along with that, with Python being easy to work with, it has become a basis for various other streaming services on the platform. Other applications include the use on the Central Alert Gateway (CAG), which is responsible for posting and receiving of alerts and notification to interested parties. Along with these, Python codes are used to track and keep history records and alerts, the update dispatch system and, automation and monitoring tools, among others.
4. Dropbox
The Dropbox uses Python for almost everything, even going as far as hiring the man who created Python back in 2012. Dropbox is a cloud-based platform that works as a place for storage, sharing, and synchronizing of files. Dropbox has many third part open source codes written in Python. These are responsible for the overall working of the system in Dropbox. However, the company has shifted some of the back end codes to a different compilation tool, Google’s Go.
5. Spotify
The company uses Python for back end services and data analysis. The website itself may be built using WordPress, but the app is built using Python. The backend of the system contains many interdependent services, and they all are connected by a messaging protocol over ZeroMQ, 80% of which is written in Python codes. The mentioned analysis includes the automated shuffles of the Spotify radio, the playlist recommendation you get, the yearly statistical data you get, all that, done through Python.
6. Uber
The Uber is a ride sharing service that allows users to get and give transportation services. The Uber’s engineers primarily write in Python codes at the lowermost levels. The front end of the Uber system is simpler however, the working backend is a complex system consisting of serve massive amounts of traffics and interactions being handled. The main architecture of the system has been broken down in hundreds of interdependent micro services. The main platform of the service is made in Python, which branches out to several of these micro services that are rooted in the same stuff but have different areas.
7. Reddit
Reddit makes use of the python libraries. It uses Python to be able to be interpreted by all these different types of devices and platforms despite being an HTML based page. Reddit is basically like a large collection of HTML files, which are generated upon request by the program written in Python, which runs in the Reddit’s server.
8. Udemy
Udemy is a platform for learning, where un-ironically, you can also learn how to code in Python. The company delivers content to the users and does all sorts of services and activities expected from an online learning platform. The amount of content and the user traffic for these services is huge. And all that is handled through Python codes.
9. Amazon
Amazon being a major online marketplace, uses Python on several of its platforms for a smoother working. The machine learning and AI can be seen working in your recommendations that you get based on your history. This is a similar type of usage of the codes in so many such platforms and in the above-mentioned company’s’ system too. The data that are gathered are all processed through machine learning. It processes and predicted the best possible recommendations based on your history.
10. Exscientia
This company has used Python to develop drugs related to OCD. The whole process took them a year. Within that timeframe they were able to take the drugs from developmental stage to human testing state. The company has kept the codebase private, which is an understandable stance for a high tech company. And its only through some speculation that we can say the company uses Python as its main tool for AI drug discovery. Along with that Astrazeneca is another pharmaceutical company that using Python. The company uses the program to discover new molecules and develop software to help with experimentation of the chemists in drug development.