Python 3 and Python streaming now available

Streaming analytics is becoming an essential part of data platforms, helping businesses collect and analyze data in real time. At Cloud Dataflow, we’ve noticed a few trends in the data engineering industry. First, Python is emerging as one of the most popular choices for data analysts, and second, a growing number of apps are powered by streaming analytics. With these trends in mind, we’re excited to announce the general availability of Python 3 and streaming support for the Python SDK.

Stack Overflow’s 2019 developer survey found that Python is the fastest growing major programming language, while a JetBrains survey observed that data analysis has become more popular than web development among Python users. In order to better serve this rapidly growing community, the developers of the Python language announced that Python 2 would be sunset in 2020. A consortium of open-source projects(including Apache Beam, the open-source SDK supported by...

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