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Why I Chose Flask to Build sr.ht's Mini-Services

posted by janrinok on Thursday January 31 2019, @04:41PM   Printer-friendly
from the no-javascript! dept.

canopic jug writes:

Full-time Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) developer Drew DeVault has written a blog post about why he chose Flask for his version control system, sr.ht. sr.ht is similar to GitLab and GitHub but is 100% FLOSS and somewhat decentralized. People are both able and encouraged to host on their own machines. The web pages for the web interface average less that 10 KiB and contain neither tracking nor JavaScript.

sr.ht is a large, production-scale suite of web applications (I call them "mini-services", as they strike a balance between microservices and monolithic applications) which are built in Python with Flask. David Lord, one of the maintainers of Flask, reached out to me when he heard about sr.ht and saw that it was built with Flask. At his urging, I'd like to share the rationale behind the decision and how it's turned out in the long run.

The whole of sr.ht is now in public alpha.

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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by DeathMonkey on Thursday January 31 2019, @06:16PM (1 child)

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Thursday January 31 2019, @06:16PM (#794625) Journal

    Who will win in the epic battle of Syntactic Whitespace vs. Codes of Conduct!

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  • (Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Thursday January 31 2019, @09:06PM

    by fyngyrz (6567) on Thursday January 31 2019, @09:06PM (#794709) Journal

    Yeah. I'm tired of being pilloried for suggesting tabs instead of spaces in the hotel elevator. It was just a suggestion. There was no good reason to feel threatened. People can use braces for all I care!

    Sheesh.

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