The Advantages of a Library Translation Approach to Distributed Computing

We adopted this hybrid approach where we're going to have two kinds of code. We've rewritten the core of NumPy and Pandas in Pure Python. And then whenever we see that you're using the libraries, we replace your calls to the C versions of those libraries. It's not as much work as you'd think because part of the reason those libraries are so complicated is in fact because they're written in C.