I just wanted to put a quick post up about some prototyping I am doing at work. I have been given the task of creating a dummy web application which has taken me into a realm I am not familiar with at all so I thought I would talk about it a little.
I basically had total control over what technology I used for this application and someone suggested to use Perl as people had used it for other application we have. I really didn't want to use Perl and there is a couple of reasons for this:
I will now talk a little bit about the other choices I have made in terms of tech:
I've decided to use Flask as it is a lightweight web framework which will allow me to do exactly what I need. This web application isn't complex so I didn't really want something large and all encompassing.
As the Web application has to use DB's I've decided to use SQLAlchemy as it seems fairly popular, has support for MySQL(The Test DB I am using for this) but also support for DB2(What we will likely deploy it on).
Finally virtualenv. This is something I've never used before but it seems like it is going to be really useful as deployment to other machines can be done without worry as It won't matter about them having the correct python version or flask version installed.
All in all it's been great, I've had to learn a lot so far and I'm finally getting the hang of how it all fits together. I've been lucky enough to have another application to use for guidance through this development and so I should have it up and running in no time.
I basically had total control over what technology I used for this application and someone suggested to use Perl as people had used it for other application we have. I really didn't want to use Perl and there is a couple of reasons for this:
- If I have to learn a new language I would rather it be one that I like the look of
- I would rather learn one that is becoming more popular rather than one that is dying off.
- There are a few people in work that are willing to help with this little prototype and they have more expertise with python.
- Python has SQLAlchemy which supports both database types we will need to use.
I will now talk a little bit about the other choices I have made in terms of tech:
I've decided to use Flask as it is a lightweight web framework which will allow me to do exactly what I need. This web application isn't complex so I didn't really want something large and all encompassing.
As the Web application has to use DB's I've decided to use SQLAlchemy as it seems fairly popular, has support for MySQL(The Test DB I am using for this) but also support for DB2(What we will likely deploy it on).
Finally virtualenv. This is something I've never used before but it seems like it is going to be really useful as deployment to other machines can be done without worry as It won't matter about them having the correct python version or flask version installed.
All in all it's been great, I've had to learn a lot so far and I'm finally getting the hang of how it all fits together. I've been lucky enough to have another application to use for guidance through this development and so I should have it up and running in no time.
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