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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   
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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• Re:Git *is* decentralized (Score: 3, Insightful) by RamiK on Thursday January 31 2019, @11:04PM

  by RamiK (1813) on Thursday January 31 2019, @11:04PM (#794771)

  I can tell you why. Because "sr.ht" is so much easier to pronounce than "git."

  And because "sr.ht" looks and sounds so much like "shit," perhaps the creator had better hire somebody without autism to provide some naming conventions.

  See now in this particular context and contest... [wikipedia.org]

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