Management Q&A
Overview
This page lists selected questions I have been asked over the years regarding managing, usually as part of a job application or interview. Questions are not necessarily my own but all answers are. Both may have been edited for correctness or clarity.
Questions
In order to best run routine database queries on very large datasets, is it better to build the software in PHP or Python?
I don't have a ton of experience with very large data sets. Where I do, the software was already built and used Python. So I'd be inclined to go with Python. In my experience, PHP is oriented toward web application development and Python has better support (tools and libraries like Pandas and Numpy) for processing large datasets and configuring the sort of backend processes where these queries would likely be run.
A cursory Google search seems to bear this out:
PHP was designed for web development at its core... On the other hand, Python comes with powerful functionalities that are hugely suitable for building apps based on AI, ML, data science, Big Data, etc. You have various options available for libraries like TensorFlow, Theano, Pandas, and more.
