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Comment by stevesimmons

5 years ago

I worked on Athena at JPMorgan for 8 years, and loved it.

Seeing Python at the core of trading, risk and post-trade processing for Commodities, FX, Credit etc was such a great developer experience.

By the time I left JPM, there were 4500 devs globally making 20k commits weekly into the Athena codebase. (I did a PyData presentation on this [1] for more details).

The one downside was the delayed transition from Py2.7 to 3; I left just as that was getting underway.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYD9yyMh9Hk The