Readit Newsmiketheman commented on PyPI in 2025: A Year in Review blog.pypi.org/posts/2025-... · Posted by u/miketheman
Is the compute and network required to service pypi all from donations or do they have any business arm that generates income?
The infrastructure sponsors can be found in the PyPI footer, and here: https://pypi.org/sponsors/#:~:text=Infrastructure%20sponsors
miketheman commented on PyPI in 2025: A Year in Review blog.pypi.org/posts/2025-... · Posted by u/miketheman
Great work!
Side issue: anyone else seeing that none of the links in the article work? They're all 404s.
Whoops, sorry about that. Should be fixed now. Happy New Year!
miketheman commented on PyPI in 2025: A Year in Review blog.pypi.org/posts/2025-... · Posted by u/miketheman
They operate a public package hosting interface, how is a search one any harder?
PyPI responses are cached at 99% or higher, with less infrastructure to run.
Search is an unbounded context and does not lend itself to caching very well, as every search can contain anything
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