Teaching a Billion People to Code: How JupyterLite Is Scaling the Impossible

Picture half a million French high school students learning math and programming in their individual browsers, all running simultaneously from a single server.

For Sylvain Corlay, founder and CEO of QuantStack and member of the Jupyter Steering Committee, this is not a pie-in-the-sky stretch goal. Corlay and his team helped make it happen by building JupyterLite, a serverless distribution of JupyterLab running entirely in the browser — kernel included, no Docker necessary.

In this…