Cory Benfield, a maintainer of Python's requests library, writes about HTTP/2, TLS, async programming, and open-source funding.
HN links his Function Colour Myth post as a reply to the async/await debate, and cites his views on open-source funding and companies not paying.
> The concept of a corporation using your code for their profit without giving back is mostly just an imagination.
One of the authors of the Python requests HTTP library has called out Uber for using Python, and almost certainly using requests, and not paying any money
https://lukasa.co.uk/2015/08/Funding_OSS/
I wrote a blog post about implementing an IdP from scratch in Python. (Uses Django, but the lessons should be transferable). https://lukasa.co.uk/2013/04/Writing_A_Persona_Identity_Provider/
See also this reply: The Function Colour Myth (https://lukasa.co.uk/2016/07/The_Function_Colour_Myth/).