python_stack.md

Tools and libraries which I prefer to use in Python stack

Development Environment

• Ubuntu Linux for both development and production
• Git version control system
• Jenkins CI build server (but recently I'm moving to git server-side hooks with ssh from git server to dev/stage/prod servers)
• Redmine bug tracking system
• JetBrains PyCharm IDE

Production Environment

• Amazon EC2 instance with Ubuntu Linux
• Amazon RDS with MySQL backend
• IPython / ipdb for debugging
• uWSGI web server
• Nginx frontend server
• Sentry error aggregator

Infrastructure

• Python 2.7 (waiting for Gevent on Python 3)
• toolz (in addition to itertools)
• requests
• validictory
• pytest, pytest-cov for testing (high-level integration tests but fast test run)
• mock, freezegun, httpretty, factory_boy for mocking
• structlog and logging into console, text file, Logstash
• times for handling time zones
• pygeoip for reading MaxMind GeoIP databases

Data access

• MySQL (due to popularity but also like PostgreSQL)
• SQLAlchemy ORM (must have for legacy databases but not sure about greenfield projects)
• Redis as buffer storage, session storage, queue and cache
• RabbitMQ if queue must be durable

Communication / Messaging

• TODO

Web interface

• Flask
• jQuery
• AngularJS
• TODO

TODO

• twilio, phonenumbers, apns_client, xmltodict, flask_principal, PySide

Usually prefer to avoid

• TODO

Not interested in using

• TODO, Django

Note this list was written on 2014-01-04 and could/should/must be changed in time.