Netflix Open Sources Polynote to Make Data Science Notebooks Better

Notebooks are the data scientist best friend and can also be a nightmare to work with. For someone accustomed to work with modern integrated develop environments(IDEs), working with notebooks feels like going back decades. Furthermore, modern notebook environments is mostly constrained to Python programs and lack first-class support for other programming languages. Polynote was born out of the necessity to accelerate data science experimentation at Netflix. Over the years, Netflix has built a world-class machine learning platform mostly based on JVM languages like Scala.