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September 1, 2022
[Case Study] "Building a Python ecosystem for efficient and reliable development"
https://blog.coinbase.com/building-a-python-ecosystem-for-efficient-and-reliable-development-d986c97a94a0
Part 1 of 2. Describes how the company developed an efficient, reliable Python ecosystem using Pants, and solved the challenge of managing Python applications at a large scale at Coinbase.
August 24, 2022
[Case Study] "Incrementally migrating a Python monorepo from Bazel to Pants"
https://developer.ibm.com/blogs/case-study-incrementally-migrating-a-python-monorepo-from-bazel-to-pants/
Watson Orders is an IBM Silicon Valley based technology development group targeting the development of world-class conversational AI. This posts walks through the process of migrating off Bazel, where they maintained 19,000 lines of BUILD file metadata, to Pants where that was slashed to 2,400 lines thanks to dependency inference. CI build time for PRs dropped from 10-12 minutes with Bazel to under 4 minutes with Pants.
August 12, 2022 [Case Study] "Astranis Case Study: Wrangling Python In a Monorepo" https://blog.pantsbuild.org/astranis-case-study-wrangling-python-in-a-monorepo/
"...We found it incredibly easy to hook in our existing remote caching systems to Pants, and added other nice features like running tailor in a check-only mode to highlight any inconsistencies in our repo. As a side benefit, Pants has helped us gain better insight into our repository by being able to easily scan for and report the transitive dependencies of modules. Having that insight has helped us plan out how to minimize the coupling of our modules..."
July 25, 2022
"Better CI/CD caching with new-gen build systems"
https://dev.to/benjyw/better-cicd-caching-with-new-gen-build-systems-3aem
How the cache solutions offered by CI providers work, why they are often of limited benefit, and how Pants supports a much more effective caching paradigm.
April 4, 2022
[Tutorial] "It's Pants Plugins All the Way Down"
https://sureshjoshi.com/development/pants-plugin-code-quality
A follow-up to "Your first Pants plugin" detailing how to manage code quality via plugins, continuous integration checks, and pre-commit hooks.
January 25, 2022
[Tutorial] "Your first Pants plugin"
https://sureshjoshi.com/development/first-pants-plugin
A newcomer's walk-through of the code and experience of writing one's first Pants plugin.
January 18, 2022
"The monorepo approach to code management"
https://sdtimes.com/softwaredev/the-monorepo-approach-to-code-management/
"If you’re responsible for your organization’s codebase architecture, then at some point you have to make some emphatic choices about how to manage growth in a scalable way..."
December 31, 2021
[Case Study] "Advancing Jupyter Notebooks at Twitter - Part 1"
https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/infrastructure/2021/advancing-jupyter-notebooks-at-twitter---part-1--a-first-class-d
About the intersection of Twitter data science, monorepos, Pants, Pex, and the pants-jupyter-plugin.
October 30, 2021
[Tutorial] "Getting Started With Pants and Django (Part 1)"
https://g-cassie.github.io/2021/10/30/django-pants-tutorial-pt1.html
October 2, 2021
[Case Study] "Putting Pants On: One Thing We Did Right After 5 Years with Django"
https://g-cassie.github.io/2021/10/02/django-pants.html
June 9, 2021
"Building Python Projects at Scale with Pants"
https://t.co/WuXPqwQ9KX
Sept 3, 2020
"Building a monorepo for Data Science with Pants Build"
https://towardsdatascience.com/building-a-monorepo-for-data-science-with-pantsbuild-2f77b9ee14bd
"Hermetic Environments in Pantsbuild" aka "Fast and Reproducible Tests, Packaging, and Deploys with Pantsbuild"
April 24, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0INmW9KaAp4
https://speakerdeck.com/chrisjrn/hermetic-environments-in-pantsbuild-31d03419-8a15-4cd3-9041-b817b8924b3c
Pants maintainer Chris Neugebauer gives a deep dive into the sandboxing model used by Pants, the priorities driving its design, and the pros and cons.
April 23, 2022
https://youtu.be/r-rpo4Xm_lM?t=2799
Chris Neugebauer gives a swift and cheeky introduction to Pants.
July 30, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4stnR1gCR4
https://speakerdeck.com/benjyw/python-monorepos-what-why-and-how-europython-2021
A discussion of the advantages of monorepos for Python codebases, and the kinds of tooling and processes we can use to make working in a Python monorepo effective.
June 24, 2021
https://meetup.build/
June 3, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Glillzb_TqQ
https://cfp.2021.djangocon.eu/2021/talk/CTXYZE/
May 25, 2021
https://youtu.be/a15T-D-f9a8?t=1225 (starts at timestamp 20:25)
May 14, 2021
https://youtu.be/HA5gzP4Ncao
https://speakerdeck.com/benjyw/creating-extensible-workflows-with-off-label-use-of-python
A dive into how Pants 2 benefits from making unconventional use of certain Python 3 features.
May 14, 2021
https://youtu.be/gMFY0uUQexE
https://speakerdeck.com/ericarellano/cuando-usar-extensiones-nativas-en-rust-rendimiento-accesible-y-seguro
Cuando hay problemas de rendimiento, las extensiones nativas de Python se empoderan para mejorar el rendimiento del "critical path", y también seguir usando Python y evitar una reinscripción costosa.
May 3, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6ENyH4_r8U
https://speakerdeck.com/benjyw/python-monorepos-what-why-and-how
May 13, 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLyW6oAExW0
https://speakerdeck.com/benjyw/how-the-pants-build-system-leverages-python-3-features
Season 3, Episode 69: The Curse of Knowledge
March 7, 2022
https://audioboom.com/posts/8043212-the-curse-of-knowledge-with-eric-arellano-and-nick-grisafi
Pants core maintainer Eric Arellano and Pants contributor Nick Grisafi discuss what Pants team has learned from philosophical concepts such as The Curse of Knowledge, Beginners Mind, and The Power of the Outsider.
Episode 352: Simplify And Scale Your Software Development Cycles By Putting On Pants (Build Tool)
February 14, 2022
https://www.pythonpodcast.com/pants-software-development-lifecycle-tool-episode-352/
Pants core maintainers Stu Hood, Eric Arellano, and Andreas Stenius guest.
Build Tools with Benjy Weinberger
January 17, 2022
https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2022/01/17/build-tools-with-benjy-weinberger/
Episode 33: Monorepo and Building at Scale
April 13, 2021
https://semaphoreci.com/blog/monorepo-building-at-scale
Pants core maintainer Benjy Weinberger guests.
Episode 28: Shifting Build Execution Paradigm
February 12, 2021
https://angelneers.com/podcast/28-shifting-build-execution-paradigm/
Pants core maintainer Benjy Weinberger guests.
Episode 290: Pants Has Got Your Python Monorepo Covered
November 23, 2020
https://www.pythonpodcast.com/pants-monorepo-build-tool-episode-290/
Pants core maintainers Stu Hood and Eric Arellano guest.
Home: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCcfCbDqtqlCkFEuENsHlbQ
Pants Build 2 Tour: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwPRXwjURiOzXjgqydxZE9RVjZqaB6OXb
"A running example of the Pants Build system and Python packaging with PEX."
https://github.com/StephanErb/pexample
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