Saturday 9 a.m.–12:20 p.m.
Flask at Scale
Miguel Grinberg
- Audience level:
- Intermediate
- Category:
- Web Frameworks
Description
Do you think that because Flask is a micro-framework, it must only be good for small, toy-like web applications? Well, not at all! In this tutorial I am going to show you a few patterns and best practices that can take your Flask application to the next level.
Abstract
Can Flask scale? For many, that is the million dollar question. Unfortunately even the Flask official documentation is ambiguous about this topic. Flask is a small, unobtrusive framework that simplifies the interface between your application and the web server. Outside of that, it mostly stays out of your way, so if you need to write an application that can scale, Flask is not going to prevent it, and in fact, it will allow you to freely choose the components of your stack and not impose choices on you like big frameworks tend to do.
In this tutorial session, I will walk you through a list of typical patterns for medium and large applications written in Flask, specifically chosen to highlight scalability patterns and best practices that you will be able to transfer to your own projects. The class will be divided in two main sections, dedicated to scalability of the code (i.e. how to write large applications with Flask) and scalability of the deployed application (i.e. how to handle large numbers of clients).
Student Handout
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