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## Posts & Articles

### Coinbase Blog

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.

### IBM Developer Blog

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.

### Astranis Space Technologies

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/>

<i>"...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..."</i>

### Dev.to

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.

### Suresh Joshi

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.

### Software Development Times

January 18, 2022 "The monorepo approach to code management" <https://sdtimes.com/softwaredev/the-monorepo-approach-to-code-management/>

<i>"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..."</i>

### Twitter Engineering

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](🔗).

### Gordon Cassie

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>

### Semaphore Blog

June 9, 2021 "Building Python Projects at Scale with Pants" <https://t.co/WuXPqwQ9KX>

### Towards Data Science

Sept 3, 2020 "Building a monorepo for Data Science with Pants Build" <https://towardsdatascience.com/building-a-monorepo-for-data-science-with-pantsbuild-2f77b9ee14bd>

## Talks

### Pycon 2022

#### "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.

#### [LIGHTNING TALK] "Stop Running Your Tests"

April 23, 2022 <https://youtu.be/r-rpo4Xm_lM?t=2799>

Chris Neugebauer gives a swift and cheeky introduction to Pants.

### EuroPython 2021

#### "Python monorepos: what, why and how"

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.

### Build Meetup 2021

#### "Faster Incremental Builds with Speculation"

June 24, 2021 <https://meetup.build/>

### Djangocon Europe 2021

#### "Managing Multiple Django Services in a Single Repo"

June 3, 2021 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Glillzb_TqQ> <https://cfp.2021.djangocon.eu/2021/talk/CTXYZE/>

### Pyninsula Meetup

#### "Effective Python Monorepos with the Pants Build System"

May 25, 2021 <https://youtu.be/a15T-D-f9a8?t=1225> (starts at timestamp 20:25)

### Pycon 2021

#### "Creating Extensible Workflows With Off-Label Use of Python"

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.

#### "Cuándo Usar Extensiones Nativas en Rust: Rendimiento Accesible y Seguro"

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.

### Pycon Israel 2021

#### "Python Monorepos: What, Why, and How"

May 3, 2021 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6ENyH4_r8U> <https://speakerdeck.com/benjyw/python-monorepos-what-why-and-how>

### SF Python Meetup

#### "How the Pants Build System Leverages Python 3 Features"

May 13, 2020 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLyW6oAExW0> <https://speakerdeck.com/benjyw/how-the-pants-build-system-leverages-python-3-features>

## Podcasts

### Humans of Devops

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.

### Podcast.\_\_init\_\_

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.

### Software Engineering Daily

Build Tools with Benjy Weinberger January 17, 2022 <https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2022/01/17/build-tools-with-benjy-weinberger/>

### Semaphore Uncut

Episode 33: Monorepo and Building at Scale April 13, 2021 <https://semaphoreci.com/blog/monorepo-building-at-scale>

Pants core maintainer Benjy Weinberger guests.

### Angelneers

Episode 28: Shifting Build Execution Paradigm February 12, 2021 <https://angelneers.com/podcast/28-shifting-build-execution-paradigm/>

Pants core maintainer Benjy Weinberger guests.

### Podcast.\_\_init\_\_

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.

## YouTube

### Pants Build project's official channel

Home: <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCcfCbDqtqlCkFEuENsHlbQ> Pants Build 2 Tour: <https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwPRXwjURiOzXjgqydxZE9RVjZqaB6OXb>

## Repositories

### Example: Python with Pants and PEX

"A running example of the Pants Build system and Python packaging with PEX." <https://github.com/StephanErb/pexample>

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