In my Copious Spare Time ™, I’m thinking about how one can rapidly build, lightweight, fast REST APIs using Python. I may revisit Django approaches again, but the heavy dependency on an RDBMS and a model-based Object-Relational Manager (ORM) makes it feel like I’m fighting against the toolkit. The key issue is that to get performance for some aspects, I’m anticipating the need for other data stores such as a full-text index or a NoSQL repository. Thinking one of the Python web micro-frameworks, possibly Flask, might be the right fit.
Wow! It’s been a long time since I talked about Redis. It’s up to version 2.4.x now.