Tuesday, October 15, 2013  Bank of America to rebuild tech stack
with Python at core  By Vasudev Ram  Saw this via Twitter:
Python in banking is an abstract of a talk by Niall O'Connor at
PyCon IE 2013.  This is an excerpt from that page:  [ How and
Why Bank of America decided to rebuild its entire technology
stack with Python at the core. What challenges we have faced and
are facing. How the banks business is adapting to a more agile
and test focused culture. What the future holds. ]  I did know,
of course, that a lot of enterprises use Python (and have been
doing so for a while), but this news about BOA rebuilding its
tech stack with Python is interesting, if true ...  Speaking of
banks, did you know the origin of the word? It comes from the
word bench, because some of the first bankers used to conduct
their business on benches in the Middle Ages. I had read that
somewhere as a kid, and checked it now at the page about banks
on Wikipedia.  Excerpt from that page:  [ Origin of the word
One of the oldest i