Comment by roryirvine

Back then, I was working on a project for a mid-market investment bank which aimed to build a self-service platform to host more "standard" python apps whilst still allowing them some of the benefits of what TFA refers to as Bank Python (speed of deployment, ability to spin up short-lived experiments with minimal hoop-jumping, structured data model, etc).

There was certainly a widespread understanding that doing things the "Bank Way" made recruitment difficult, and they hypothesised that it was also a significant drag on their ability to turn around new projects. The main goal of the new platform was to provide an alternative way of doing things which would allow them to quantify that drag.

I know that the pilot was completed, and it went on to a more widespread deployment - but my involvement with it had already ended so I can't say if it actually proved their hypothesis / provided the quantitative data they wanted.