Optimizations are one thing -- making a serious data collection program run 114,000 times faster is another thing entirely. Leaning on 30+ years of programming experience, David Schachter goes over all the optimizations he made to his (secret) company's data-collecting program to get such massive performance gains. In doing so, he might be able to teach you a thing or two about optimizing a python program. Want to learn more about python. Check out more Marakana videos here:.