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PyCon 2014
April 11, 2014
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So you want to be a full-stack developer? How to build a full-stack python web application by Kate Heddleston
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Transcript
Full-stack Python Web Applications
Kate Heddleston @heddle317
Python is often one part of a much larger system.
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What we’re going to talk about... 1. A (semi) typical
web application 2. Dev, staging, production, deploy system 3. Helpful python libraries
What we’re not going to talk about... • Massively scalable
web applications. • Every single installation on the machine. • Nitty gritty details of anything.
Web Application
Parts of a Stack 1. Operating System 2. Web Server
3. Database 4. Application Language
Web Server Apache mod_wsgi Application Code Python Application Code Python
Postgres Database Data
Web Server Apache mod_wsgi Application Code Python Postgres Database
Web Server Application Code Database
Web Server Nginx/ Gunicorn Apache/ mod_wsgi
Application Code Frameworks Python libraries Frontend Static Files (maybe)
Database PostgreSQL MySQL SQLServer Redis MongoDB
Web Server Application Code Database Logging
Logging Log files on the machine
Web Server Application Code Logging Version Control Database
Version Control git svn Github Bitbucket
Web Server Application Code Logging Version Control Database SMTP Server
SMTP Server PostmarkApp Sendgrid Amazon SES
Web Server Application Code Logging Version Control Database SMTP Server
Data Store Async Tasks
Async Frameworks Twisted Tornado Async Tasks Python-rq/Redis Celery/RabbitMQ
Web Server Application Code Logging Version Control Database SMTP Server
Data Store Async Tasks !Exception Handling!
!Exception Handling! Emails
Web Server Application Code Logging Version Control Database SMTP Server
Data Store Async Tasks !Exception Handling!
Web Server Application Code Logging Version Control Database SMTP Server
Data Store Async Tasks !Exception Handling!
Web Server Application Code Logging Version Control Database SMTP Server
Data Store Async Tasks !Exception Handling! Cache
Cache Memcached Redis Varnish
Web Server Application Code Logging Database Data Store Async Tasks
!Exception Handling! Cache Monitoring
Monitoring New Relic Nagios Pingdom
Web Server Application Code Logging Database Data Store Async Tasks
!Exception Handling! Cache
Web Server Application Code Logging Database Data Store Async Tasks
!Exception Handling! Cache
!Exception Handling! Emails Sentry
Web Server Application Code Logging Database Data Store Async Tasks
!Exception Handling! Cache
Logging Log Server Loggly Splunk
Web Server Application Code Logging Database Data Store Async Tasks
!Exception Handling! Cache
Web Server Application Code Database Data Store Async Tasks Cache
Web Server Application Code Cache Load Balancer
Logging !Exception Handling! Monitoring Version Control SMTP Server
Web Server Application Code Database Data Store Async Tasks Cache
Load Balancer Web Server Application Code Cache Data Store Async Tasks Database Database
System of Systems
Production (aka everything you just built) Dev Deploy
Dev Venv & Venvwrapper Vagrant & VirtualBox
Deploy git pull & restart services
Deploy Production (aka everything you just built) Dev Testing
Testing Jenkins CircleCI TravisCI
Deploy Production Dev Testing Staging Dev Dev
Server Config Chef Puppet Ansible SaltStack Docker
Deploy Chef Puppet Ansible SaltStack Docker
Dev Venv & Venvwrapper Vagrant & VirtualBox
Deploy Production Dev Testing Staging Dev Dev Deploy Production Dev
Testing Staging Dev Dev
Hosting AWS Rackspace Linode
Chef Repo for a Web Application https://github.com/heddle317/django-chef-application
PaaS Heroku Elastic Beanstalk
Resources Maps https://github.com/heddle317/full-stack- resources/tree/master/resources_maps
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Talk Maps https://github.com/heddle317/full-stack- resources/tree/master/talk_maps
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3 Takeaways • What are the basic pieces of a
full-stack. • What do these pieces look like in different environments. • Resources for learning more and working with these pieces.
Ask your questions now. Kate Heddleston @heddle317 https://github.com/heddle317/full-stack-resources
“A complex system that works is invariably found to have
evolved from a simple system that works.” — John Gall, Systemantics (1975)
“A system is never finished being developed until it ceases
to be used.” — attributed to Gerald M. Weinberg
“It is as if perfection be attained not when there
is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to take away.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Terre des Hommes (1939)
“There is no such thing as a small change to
a large system.” — systems folklore, source lost in the mists of time
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no
simpler.” — commonly attributed to Albert Einstein; it is actually a paraphrase of a comment he made in a 1933 lecture at Oxford