The Maze of Python Dependency Management

For over 20 years, I've developed code for the JVM, first in Java, then in Kotlin. However, the JVM is not a silver bullet, e.g., in scripts:

1. Virtual machines incur additional memory requirements
2. In many cases, the script doesn't run long enough to gain any benefit performance-wise. The bytecode is interpreted and never compiles to native code.

For these reasons, I now write my scripts in Python. One of them collects social media metrics from different sources and stores them in BigQuery for analytics.