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by denniskane
3881 days ago
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For the purpose of solving serious general programming problems like these on the server, most developers would probably rather want to use something like google app engine because it hosts code as well as static files for free, up to certain quota limits. That way, they can just play around with one of the zillions of open source python libraries, and then integrate it into their projects. Making third-party API calls is honestly something that developers want to avoid if at all possible. |
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Firstly, although python has loads of great open source libraries, you wont find any that can do all the things we can do.
Secondly, the volume of data that needs to be maintained and updated (on daily basis) is massive and way out of the scope of most projects (e.g. we maintain databases with more than 5 billion records which have to be updated daily).
Finally, although some of the APIs could run in a 100% local environment (we are looking into some ways to distribute this way) most either require a constant fresh data feed or need to connect to external systems e.g. to make and HLR query you must connect to the SS7 network which is not easily obtained and simply something most developers don't want to have to deal with.