2 years ago

Category: Software, Database, Security, Data, Microsoft, Kubernetes

In November, London-based software engineer https://uk.linkedin.com/in/cal-paterson-290a2730 published a fascinating “https://calpaterson.com/bank-python.html,” describing it as “The strange world of Python, as used by big investment banks … “If you know a certain important function existed at a previous bank in a certain file, it probably exists in the same file in your current bank,” he said.

(Although Paterson also adds that even within the investment banking industry, “some banks have it and some do not.”)

The first big surprise: Bank Python doesn’t have access to a filesystem!

So Bank Python programs first just open a connection to that database of objects — and then away they go.