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Jerry W.
$150/hr
  • Trophy Icon Python
  • API
  • Containerization
  • Amazon Web Services
  • CI/CD
  • Serverless Computing
  • DevOps
  • Automation
  • Systems Engineering
  • Cloud Architecture
  • Linux System Administration
  • Automation Software Release

Are you looking for a Cloud or DevOps Engineer with expertise in automation and keeping it secure? Look no further! Hello, my name is Jerry and I am a Cloud/ DevOps Engineer with extensive experience in building cloud infrastructure, automating all the things, and keeping it secure while doing so. Here are some of my technical highlights: 🤖Programming Languages 🤖 🔅 bash 🔅 golang 🔅 php 🔅 python 👾Configuration Management 👾 🔅 CloudFormation, Serverless, Stacker, Terraform 🔅 Ansible, Chef, SaltStack 🦾CI/CD 🦾 🔅 AWS CodePipeline/CodeBuild 🔅 BitBucket 🔅 GitHub 🔅 GitLab 🔅 Jenkins 🏭Infrastructure 🏭 🔅 Autoscaling and Load...

Royce E.
$175/hr
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  • Financial Modeling
  • Investment Research
  • Financial Analysis
  • Cryptocurrency
  • Algorithm Development
  • Quantitative Research
  • Forex Trading
  • Project Risk Management
  • Quantitative Analysis
  • Quantitative Finance
  • Derivatives Trading
  • Financial Trading
  • Trading Automation
  • Trading Strategy

Hi! Upwork uses my first name, Royce, but I go by Aaron (my middle name). I am a quantitative /systematic trader that also helps others with all things related to running algorithmic trading systems. This includes tasks such as system modeling/backtesting, data collection/storing, signal processing based on technical indicators, portfolio and position risk management, etc. I am a skilled programmer that writes well documented and organized code that is easy to follow and build upon. But I provide even more value with my trading knowledge and experience. I've contributed to hundreds of successful projects to date, and look forward to...

Ravi C.
$40/hr
  • Trophy Icon Python
  • MySQL
  • Business Intelligence
  • Data Modeling
  • Data Analysis
  • Visualization
  • Business Analysis
  • Power Query
  • Statistics
  • Data Visualization
  • Microsoft Excel
  • SQL
  • Microsoft Power BI
  • Report

I have a proven record of accomplishment of delivering outstanding results for my clients, top-rated plus Power BI Consultant on Upwork with a 100% success rate with 12+ jobs and 5-star ratings. My expertise in Power BI enables me to create interactive and visually appealing dashboards that make it easy for clients to understand and act on their data. I am proficient in Power BI, SQL, and other data management tools and I am skilled in data cleaning, transformation, and modeling. As a Power BI specialist with a Microsoft Certified Data Analyst Associate, I approach every project with a creative problem-solving mindset, utilizing my diverse...

Zhijian C.
$200/hr
  • Trophy Icon Python
  • Transact-SQL
  • Oracle Database Administration
  • SQL
  • Ansible
  • C++
  • Oracle Database
  • PostgreSQL
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • Oracle PLSQL
  • Microsoft SQL Server
  • React
  • Django
  • AWS Lambda

I am an SME with years of experience in - Oracle database administration - DB and SQL performance tuning - SQL & PL/SQL development in Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL/MariaDB, & PostgreSQL - Software development in C++/Java/Python - System automation in Kubernetes, Docker, Chef, Ansible, vRA, and Cloudbolt - Multi-cloud experience in AWS, Azure, and GCP - DevOps and Agile I have certifications in: * Oracle Certified Professional - DBA * AWS Solutions Architect - Professional * Project Management Professional - PMP * SAFe 5 Practitioner * EMT I have experience in the following businesses and industries: + Telecom...

Marc D.
$150/hr
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  • R
  • Python Numpy
  • Verilog
  • VHDL
  • Microsoft Word

I am specializing in trading programs that use the Interactive Brokers API, implemented in python using the official python code from IB. I have done multiple contracts in this area that covers many different types of financial instruments (stocks, options, futures) on different markets (US mostly, but also some European markets). I focus on implementing your strategy, especially hiding from you some of the peculiarities of the IB API, and making the code reasonable simple and robust. I am also taking work that overlap with this, basically: - Python work, mostly around statistics and visualization, usually using Pandas. - Other financial...

Douglas E.
$50/hr
  • Trophy Icon Python
  • Django
  • Amazon Elastic Beanstalk
  • JavaScript
  • Test-Driven Development
  • Amazon S3
  • Bootstrap
  • RESTful API
  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL

Hello, I'm Python/Django Web developer. I have more than eight years of experience developing and managing web applications using AWS infrastructure and Django as the main web framework. I can create a product from the beginning and deploy it following the best practices. My professional skills: * Python, Django, Django Rest Framework, Scrapy * JavaScript, jQuery * HTML5, CSS3, Sass * Linux, Docker, Nginx * MySQL, PostgreSQL, AWS Aurora, DynamoDB * AWS EC2 and Elastic beanstalk, Digital ocean, Linode * AWS services, S3, SQS/SQN, ElastiCache, Aurora, ElasticSearch ... * Pytest, TDD * Team leading, Project Management I have a history of...

Vincent C.
$100/hr
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  • C++
  • Forex Trading
  • Node.js
  • Cryptocurrency
  • Finance & Accounting
  • Web Scraper
  • Flask
  • C#

I have a dual profency in trading and programming. Indeed, I graduated from a business school with a MS in Financial Markets and also developed my programming skills on a trading floor in Paris. 7 years of experience in trading automation. I also publish courses on Udemy dealing with programming/finance (12 000 students). --|-- Areas covered by my projects so far --|-- • Interactive Brokers API • Crypto Exchange APIs (Bittrex, Bitfinex, Gdax, Binance, Bybit, FTX, Huobi, HitBTC, Dobi, Bitmex, Exrates, GateIO, LiveCoin, Kraken, RightBTC, Hotbit, Exmo, Poloniex, Gemini, Coinbene, Yobit, Liquid, Cryptopia, Mercatox, Bleutrade,...) •...

Payal S.
$85/hr
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  • SQL
  • Data Science
  • .NET Framework
  • .NET Core
  • ASP.NET Core
  • ASP.NET Web API
  • Angular
  • Entity Framework
  • Microsoft SQL Server
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Microsoft Power BI Data Visualization

I am a senior programmer with several years of .Net, C#, SQL and Azure application development, API design and development, integration, deployment and testing experience. I have full stack development experience using .Net technologies including some with .Net Core and Angular. I have data science and machine learning knowledge with Python and Azure ML.

Radu Bogdan E.
$30/hr
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  • C++
  • Machine Learning
  • Deep Learning
  • Mathematics
  • Physics

Work experience After few small jobs: - 2002 - 2018 SC Vonrep SRL engineer in these fields of activity: automation, industrial measurements ,design mechanical, electrical, PC or microcontroller software for implementing measurement systems with laser scanners, load cells, load cell scales, ultrasonic sensors, etc. according to customer specifications and technical requirements of the application, technical support for sales. -2016 - 2021 - i worked as freelancer many projects in machine learning field , image recognition , face recognition ,ocr , natural language processing , named entity recognition in texts , time series analysis,...

Aisenyi M.
$40/hr
  • Trophy Icon Python
  • ERPNext
  • JavaScript
  • Project Management

Hello! I am an experienced software developer and ERP consultant. I've spent most of the last four years implementing and customizing the open source ERP system ERPNext. I have implemented ERPNext at more than 15 companies in the logististics, insurance and retail industries; ranging in size from 2 to 90+ employees. I have also built ERPNext modules and customization for companies in the Logistics, Insurance and Manufacturing Industry. Over the years I've gained intimate knowledge of the inner workings of ERPNext, the Frappe framework and the Python and Javascript programming languages. I have also gained working knowledge of Finance,...

Santosh G.
$50/hr
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  • Amazon Web Services
  • Flask
  • System Automation
  • SQL
  • API Development
  • Django
  • Amazon DynamoDB
  • Data Visualization
  • Data Science

Greetings ! I am an expert Python and Django developer with 9 years of professional experience. I have experience of working in 95+ jobs and over 13K+ hours with proven success in Upwork and have been maintaining Top Rated (now Top Rated Plus) status consistently since last 5 years. These are the technologies I have command on: Web development using Python/Django in high-traffic environment, Web scraping (using Scrapy framework), AWS technologies (Lambda, Step Functions, EC2, S3, SWF, RedShift, DynamoDB, SimpleDB), Data Science and Machine Learning (numpy, pandas, sckit learn, graphlab), Automation tasks (Python and bash scripts), XML and...

Jesse R.
$70/hr
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  • Bash
  • NGINX
  • Deployment Automation
  • System Administration
  • Microsoft Azure
  • DNS
  • Automation
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Linux
  • React
  • SQL
  • JavaScript
  • WordPress
  • Google Cloud Platform

My name is Jesse and I'm a passionate consultant who can fill a variety of roles in the tech industry. I started as a sys admin and developer but have also worked in customer success, business operations, and project management. Regardless of the department or role, I love to solve business problems with technology. My passion is automation, and I find streamlining processes to be very engaging.

Maksym G.
$49/hr
  • Trophy Icon Python
  • C++
  • C
  • Computer Vision
  • OpenCV
  • Algorithms
  • Mathematics
  • Multithreaded Programming
  • Artificial Intelligence

Hello, I'm senior C++ developer with 10+ years of professional experience. In my career I worked in successful AAA game development, mobile multiuser software development, embedded software for set-top-boxes, searched for a good trading strategy for a dozen markets using machine learning on a cluster of forty high-end servers. Once I participated in Google AI Challenge (Planet Wars) and wrote a bot in three days which took 41th place out of 4500+ participants from around the world. My rating on freelancer.com is 5/5 Now I'm looking for a challenging job opportunity. My key skills: - C/C++, Python - computer vision with OpenCV library -...

David M.
$80/hr
  • Trophy Icon Python
  • CSS
  • HTML
  • JavaScript
  • jQuery
  • AJAX
  • MySQL Programming
  • MongoDB
  • HTML5
  • Django

Web developer experienced in writing custom web applications. I can turn designs into functional websites with ease. I work mostly with python on the back-end but am willing to learn anything new needed for a project.

Yefri N.
$40/hr
  • Trophy Icon Python
  • ERPNext
  • JavaScript
  • jQuery
  • MySQL
  • Git
  • GitHub
  • HTML5
  • CSS
  • Jinja2

I am a Web Developer at local company in the Dominican Republic. I first started as a Software Implementer. Giving training to users, doing basic configurations to production and development servers, integrating and learning all the workflows of the existing system called (ERPNext). After a year of developing features I finally was able to make my own app and my carreer as a developer got started. It's been almost three years working with open source projects that run on top of Frappe. Having the best of both worlds development and implementation is what made me really good in the field. As soon as I have a new project a start thinking of...

Sreenath A.
$38/hr
  • Trophy Icon Python
  • Selenium
  • Flask
  • Data Mining
  • Automation
  • Data Scraping
  • Beautiful Soup
  • Vue.js
  • Data Extraction
  • Python Script
  • Google Cloud Platform
  • Git
  • Test Automation Framework
  • API Testing

Innovator and Influencer enthusiastically seeking challenges to satiate my drive and experience in Python based Automation, Selenium Development and Web Scrapping bot development. Open to all opportunities in the field of Python Development, automation and analytics. I guarantee to provide hassle free service with my skills. Few projects that can show my skills are as below 1. QA Automation Pipeline - Pipeline based on Jenkins and Python, that picks up developer builds and run them through various tests based on the type of code change made. The results are then analysed and presented in user friendly formats. Technology used - Python,...

André M.
$75/hr
  • Trophy Icon Python
  • Django
  • RESTful API
  • Linux System Administration
  • API Development
  • JavaScript
  • API

A Pythonista solopreneur in love with new technologies, looking for solve people's problems with passion and commitment. I believe that humans are made to contribute each other and technology was designed to make this thought possible. I use my skills with Python Django/REST and Front End technologies such as CSS3, HTML5, JavaScript and frameworks as Bootstrap, SASS, AngularJS to make dreams come true by my hands. If you have an idea, I have the strength, the passion and the tools to make it happen. Let's work together?

Henry M.
$115/hr
  • Trophy Icon Python
  • Django
  • HTML5
  • HTML
  • CSS 3
  • Bootstrap
  • JavaScript
  • jQuery

If you're looking for someone with a passion for developing easy to use sites that meet your business's and your customers' needs, look no further. I have 20 years experience in Customer Services and ensuring Business practices work effectively for customer needs and I can turn that practical experience to your business. Having worked as a Senior Manager in the British Water Industry for many years, I took a severance package in January 2016 to start working in a field I enjoy; I love writing programs and seeing them being used. I use HTML, CSS, Bootstrap and Javascript to front-end developments on the web, enabling responsive and...

Abdennacer E.
$30/hr
  • Trophy Icon Python
  • CakePHP
  • JavaScript
  • PHP
  • Apache Hadoop
  • Apache HBase
  • MongoDB
  • Cloudera
  • Apache Spark
  • Laravel

I am a developer focused on providing highly efficient software solutions. - Full Stack Developer (WEB Applications and websites) - Big Data Engineer (Hadoop, PySpark, Hive, MapReduce) - E-Commerce Developer: Magento 2 - Woocommerce - Install, setup and manage VPSs and Big Data Clusters - Web Applications Security checks, and perform advanced security tests (Penetration tester) - Expert PHP Developer - Experienced PHP Laravel developer I am ready to take on new experiences and to engage in serious works.

Colin M.
$75/hr
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  • Minimum Viable Product
  • Django
  • JavaScript
  • jQuery
  • HTML5
  • CSS 3
  • Docker
  • Bootstrap
  • PostgreSQL
  • RESTful API
  • Heroku
  • Stripe

I am an experienced professional with 5+ years of team management, operations management, and process development experience. Recognized for demonstrating a natural aptitude for administering all day-to-day operations to allow for maximum company success, as well as for evaluating and enhancing company processes and effectively operating across a wide variety of other areas such as sales, programming, and accounting, I have a history of contributing to company growth throughout my career. Professional focal points include operations strategic planning, P&L ownership, document management, programming, sales development, accounting management,...

Sreenivas A.
$45/hr
  • Trophy Icon Python
  • Data Modeling
  • SQL
  • SQL Server Integration Services
  • Microsoft SQL Server Programming
  • Microsoft Power BI
  • dbt
  • Microsoft Power BI Data Visualization
  • Microsoft Power BI Development
  • Microsoft Azure SQL Database
  • Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services
  • Business Intelligence
  • Data Warehousing
  • Snowflake
  • Looker

I am seeking/offering Data Analytics/Data Science/ETL/ELT/Reporting/Visualization/Cloud data ware house and Cloud management services with 13 Years of BI/EDW (Enterprise Data warehouse) expertise in areas of HealthCare, Insurance, Finance, Transportation and financial services along with warranty business using various ETL/ELT tools such as SQL Server Integration Services, Talend open studio and other ETL tools such as stitch and Azure Data factory 2.0(Cloud). Reporting: SQL Server Reporting services Visualization Tools: Power BI, Looker and Tableau include RLS and custom charts(DAX and Power Query). Data Cubes for slicing/Dicing: SQL...

Mainul I.
$35/hr
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  • ERPNext
  • API
  • Docker
  • MySQL
  • MariaDB
  • Server
  • SQL
  • JavaScript
  • Vue.js

I'm able to work any kind of python and PHP-related work like ERP Customization, ERP Implementation, Custom Web-based software development, Web Development. Also, I have more than 5 years of experience work in Frappe and ERPNext. I've Completed some projects. * ERPNext customize for Garments and Implement * Content Management System for UHSSP. * Website develop for SVCP and Zenith by PHP (Laravel) * And a lot of web-related projects. Also, I have good knowledge of work in Unix Server.

Dibyaranjan S.
$15/hr
  • Trophy Icon Python
  • Selenium
  • Django
  • NumPy
  • Python-Requests
  • RESTful API
  • Beautiful Soup
  • Scrapy
  • PostgreSQL
  • Automation
  • MongoDB
  • MySQL

I am a professional Python Developer with 7 years of experience. I excel at developing codes for scraping website. Along with this, I develop REST API with django as backend and deploy on cloud using Docker. I also have experience in developing real time dashboard using Python dash framework. With a rich coding experience along with great problem solving ability, I can help clients bring their ideas to product. I am a dedicated programmer and always deliver my projects on time and with all the quality requirements. I build maintainable, scalable, reusable code and most importantly user friendly code with proper documentation. I always...

Kiril V.
$60/hr
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  • JavaScript
  • Odoo
  • Elm
  • Elixir

Designer and engineer of information systems built on the Linux platform that help business’s overcome their marketing and organizational issues. Expert in building solutions around the Odoo web framework and business application suite with experience on more than 60 projects in various roles: developer / lead developer / project manager. Languages: Expert in Python, Javascript, SQL; Proficient in Bash, Elixir/Erlang, Haskell, Elm Web Frameworks: Expert in Odoo; Proficient in Django, Flask Network (application) protocols: HTTP, SMTP Databases: PostgreSQL Web Servers: Nginx Web & Markup: HTML, CSS/SCSS, JSON, XML, Emacs Org-mode Platforms:...

Saman S.
$80/hr
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  • Qlik Sense
  • Business Intelligence
  • Microsoft Power BI
  • Microsoft Azure SQL Database
  • Azure IoT HuB
  • AWS Lambda
  • AWS Glue
  • Dashboard
  • Microsoft Azure
  • PySpark
  • Amazon Redshift
  • AWS IoT Core
  • BigQuery
  • Snowflake
  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Kafa

Results-driven, self-starter IT professional with 20+ years of experience in data warehousing, ETL, data modeling, database design/development, analytics, and reporting. 11+ years of experience leading technical teams to implement and deliver business intelligence solutions to more than 15 companies in different industries such as Health Care, Banking, Petrochemical, and Energy.

Karthikaa S.
$15/hr
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  • Django
  • Scrapy
  • jQuery
  • MySQL
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • Selenium
  • R
  • pandas

I am a Senior full-stack developer with extensive experience in creating robust, supportable web applications. * Python - 7+ years of experience * Django - 20+ project completed * Flask - 8 project completed * React - 6 projects * Scrapy - More than 100+ sites involved ecommerce * Automation script using Python * Jquery, HTML, CSS * MySQL Availability : 40 hours/Week

Abhishek D.
$50/hr
  • Trophy Icon Python
  • Cloud Architecture
  • TypeScript
  • Git
  • Docker
  • DevOps
  • Core Java
  • Jenkins
  • Node.js
  • System Administration
  • Terraform
  • Google Cloud Platform
  • Rancher
  • Kubernetes
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Ansible

I am a Software Engineer with specialization in Full Stack Development, Cloud Engineering, DevOps Engineering, Crawling Solutions, Chatbots, and Desktop Applications. I have developed responsive cross-browser compatible web applications, built crawlers capable of crawling millions of pages. I have extensive experience with setting up Cloud Native applications including * Co-founded a software startup on AI, Chatbots, and conversational interfaces. * Worked with a diverse tech stack including Node.js, Python, Django, Flask, React.js, Java and more. * Experience with major cloud providers including Google Cloud, AWS, and Azure. * Experience...

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Python: A Powerful Language for High-Traffic, Data-Heavy Apps

Python is a widely used, general-purpose, high-level back-end programming language that’s highly valued by startups who need to quickly prototype and develop applications, as well as data-driven companies that need to integrate data analysis and statistical techniques into their workflows.

Its combination of readability, flexibility, and suitability to data science operations have made Python one of the most popular and beloved languages according to developers on Stack Overflow. In this article, we’ll explore what sets Python apart from other programming languages, why it’s popular with data scientists, and what you should look for in a Python engineer.

High-level, readable, and efficient

One of Python’s defining characteristics is its efficiency. Every programming language has to balance the programmer’s time and the machine’s resources. Python is biased toward the former, with a guiding philosophy that comes down to “there should be one—and preferably only one—obvious way to do something.” That can mean there’s a bit of a learning curve as developers learn the ins and outs of Python syntax, but the upside is that developers can do more with fewer lines of code compared to more lower-level implementation languages like Java or C++. This efficiency is especially valuable for startups who need to quickly prototype applications and get them to market.

Python is also famous for its code readability, meaning that an application written by a developer in Python is more likely to be intelligible to the developers who have to maintain it months and years down the line.

Beloved by data scientists

Along with R and Java, Python is one of the most popular languages for data science and statistical analysis. For data scientists, Python combines Java’s suitability for building high-traffic web applications with R’s focus on executing complex statistical functions.

Another one of Python’s strongest assets is its extensive set of libraries. These libraries can make it easier for developers to perform complex machine learning or statistical analysis tasks without having to rewrite many lines of code. Some of the most popular libraries include tools for data manipulation and visualization (NumPy, SciPy, and matplotlib), data mining and Natural Language Processing (Pattern, NLTK). Perhaps unsurprisingly, Python is the language of choice for organizations with data-heavy workflows, from YouTube to the New York Stock Exchange to the National Web Service.

Python basics

  • It’s object-oriented.
  • It’s cross-platform, working on Linux, Windows, Mac, and most other operating systems.
  • Python’s standard library supports:
    • HTML & XML
    • JSON
    • E-mail processing
    • HTTP Server libraries, easy for developing servers, and support for FTP, IMAP, and other Internet protocols
  • It’s free and supported by an active open-source community.
  • It’s often substituted for PHP in the LAMP software stack.

The Python developer’s toolbox

What should you look for in a Python engineer? Experience on large-scale, high-traffic applications is at the top of the list, along with fluency in SQL and database optimization. Common duties and core skills of Python developers include modular programming, object-oriented programming, and extensive experience with SQL.

A guide to Python web frameworks

Full-stack or microframework?

One of your main considerations in choosing a framework should be the size and complexity of your project. If you’re trying to get a feature-rich web app that will integrate with the rest of your organization’s systems, then a full-stack option could potentially save your team lots of time and effort. If, on the other hand, you’re working on a small, relatively simple project with few requirements, then a microframework might have everything you need.

A related question is how much “scaffolding” you need from a framework. A full-stack option should have just about everything you need to actually build a functioning web app–form generators, templating, access control lists, etc–so your team can assemble the pieces as needed. This is an attractive option for teams that are trying to get a product together quickly because it allows them to focus on actually building the app and not the stuff that goes around it. But if you have complex custom requirements or are working with a lot of customized software already, you may not be able to take advantage of all those libraries in the first place.

Full-stack options

There are a bunch of full-stack options when it comes to Python frameworks. Some prominent examples include TurboGears 2, Pylons, and Web2py. That said, the most popular option, by far, is Django.

Django is the most popular Python framework around, and it’s easy to understand why. Thousands of websites are currently using Django, from daily newspapers to social media and sharing sites to major foundations and nonprofits. Since Django was originally developed for use in the newsroom, it’s no surprise that major daily publications like the Washington Post and The Guardian rely on it. Startups like Eventbrite and Disqus have turned to Django to scale quickly, while social media behemoths like Instagram and Pinterest have used it to power their dynamic web apps.

As a framework, Django is known for being fast to build and friendly to beginning programmers. It’s a “batteries included” framework, meaning it supplies all the critical components you need–template rendering, ORM, authentication, routing, etc. It’s also exceedingly well-documented, which isn’t necessarily the case with some other popular frameworks.

By taking care of a lot of decisions, Django can dramatically speed up the time it takes to bootstrap a new project. What you gain in speed, though, you may lose in long-term flexibility. For example, Django’s built-in ORM is considered fine for a majority of cases, but it’s not as powerful an ORM as SQLAlchemy, which is widely viewed as the best Python database abstraction tool. While you can theoretically use SQLAlchemy with Django, you’ll lose a lot of the functionality that makes Django so appealing to begin with.

Web2py is another popular full-stack framework. One thing to keep in mind about Web2py is that it doesn’t support Python 3. The original developer of Web2py has promised a Python 3-compatible successor, but as of 2017 it hasn’t appeared.

Despite now being nearly a decade behind the latest version of Python, Web2py is still used by many major organizations, including a number of international banks. What makes this older framework still appealing for many developers? For one, it’s as easy to learn as Django, but also more flexible and extremely portable. The same code can run on just about any VPS with a SQL database or MongoDB, whether AWS or Google App Engine.

Web2py is extremely well supported with book-length documentation and a passionate community behind it. Another neat feature is that Web2py comes with its own IDE that includes a code editor, debugger, bug ticketing system, one-click deployment, and more. If your organization is committed to Python 2 for the foreseeable future or you plan to make use of some older Python libraries and software, then Web2py could suit your needs just fine.

Pyramid isn’t technically a full-stack framework. It instead bills itself as the “Goldilocks” framework, feature-rich without enforcing one way of doing things, lightweight without leaving you on your own as your app grows. It’s a favorite framework among many experienced Python developers thanks to its modularity and transparency, and has been used by small teams as well as tech giants like Dropbox, Yelp, SurveyMonkey, and Mozilla.

Practically speaking, nearly all of Pyramid’s components can be swapped out. You can choose how you connect to a database, or even what type (or types) of databases you want to be able to connect to. It doesn’t enforce certain choices for you the way Django does, and it also discourages the sort of “magic” features that handle certain tasks automatically but don’t always behave in a predictable or desirable manner.

Pyramid is often celebrated for its security system, which makes it easy to set up and check access control lists. Another point worth calling out is Pyramid’s Traversal system for mapping URLs to code, which can make building RESTful APIs much easier.

Microframeworks

What if you don’t need the hand-holding or complexity of a full-stack framework? Many modern web apps require lots of moving parts, including database abstraction, form validation, and customized access control lists. But there are also plenty of web apps that don’t need any of that. For those kinds of projects, a microframework may be just what’s needed.

These ultra-lightweight frameworks are designed to get dead simple web apps up and running as quickly as possible. Their feature sets are minimal by design–anything functionality you could get by installing another library is deliberately left out. The plus side of this minimalist approach is that your code can be cleaner and your website faster. This is at least partly because microframeworks are generally less abstracted than full-stack frameworks. The code you write will be much closer to actual HTTP functions than with a more beginner-friendly framework.

Flask is probably the most popular microframework for Python, and one of the most popular Python frameworks, period. Like Django, it’s designed to get web apps up and running as quickly and painlessly as possible. Despite its small size, Flask has been used by big companies, including LinkedIn and Pinterest.

However, there’s a twist, which is that Flask is definitely suited to smaller, simpler projects than Django. Out of the box, you can expect a development web server, built-in unit testing, and support for Google App Engine. Now here’s a taste of what you won’t find in vanilla Flask: There’s no database abstraction layer, form validation, authentication, or upload handling, though all these features can be added through extensions. Some of the more common setups include Jinja2 for templating and CouchDB or SQLAlchemy for the database.

Some Python developers prefer Flask to Django because Flask is more “pythonic,” in that it mostly sticks to the Python mantra of there being one way to do something and that code should be explicit about what it’s doing. If you value clean code and don’t mind coding closer to the metal, then Flask may be a good option.

Bottle is another popular microframework. It was originally designed for building web APIs, and that’s still a good use case for it. What’s novel about Bottle is it tries to implement everything in one single file, which should give you an idea of how “micro” it’s designed to be. Out of the box it comes with routing, templating, utilities, and some basic abstraction over the WSGI standard. As with Flask, you’ll be coding much closer to the metal than with a full-stack framework. Despite its small size, Bottle has been used by the Netflix team to build web interfaces.

Python vs. Ruby

First, the similarities

Both are high-level, server-side scripting languages focusing on simplicity and prioritizing rapid development—getting things done fast, in fewer lines of code. These scripts eschew verbose code, strict hierarchy, and syntax correctness for more behind-the-scenes, object-oriented logic.

They’re used by entrepreneurs and startups alike to rapidly whip up web apps and prototypes, thanks to standard libraries, persistence support, and feature-packed frameworks—Python’s Django framework, and Ruby’s Ruby on Rails. Both are interpreted scripting languages, which means they don’t require a compiler like Scala or C++ do. Compiled languages tend to run faster, though. Rule of thumb? What you get in speed of development, you lose in runtime speed.

Now, let’s dive into their differences, starting with Ruby.

Ruby & the Ruby on Rails framework

Created in 1995, Ruby is object-oriented to its core, influenced by languages like C++, Perl, and Java. Here’s a look at Ruby, a language that’s ideal for collaboration, speed, and businesses that want a programming language that thinks as fast as they do.

Preferred for: Web development, functional programming

Philosophy: “Do more with less.” Developer freedom and flexibility, and more than one way to do things—something it inherited from Perl

Why developers love Ruby: Loose and creative coding, frequent updates, freedom and flexibility, and readable code that’s never confusing

Python & the Django framework

Python is all about efficiency and supporting calculation-heavy applications used in the fields of data and science. Along with its Django framework, Python enables super fast development.

Preferred for: Academic and scientific programming. Python has a slew of libraries for data work.

Philosophy: “One right way to do things”

Why developers love Python: Stability over change, conservative code, fewer updates

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