Change the future

Why Pyramid is Awesome

Éric Araujo

Audience level:
Novice
Category:
Web Frameworks

Description

Beside the friends, walls and photos, Facebook is a platform where anybody can build applications or games taking advantage of the huge user base and connections between people. Any web-capable language or framework can be used to do that, but this poster will show you why Pyramid is a most excellent choice.

Abstract

  • Anatomy of a Facebook application

    • the user-visible page
    • authorization
    • internal resources
    • callback resources

  • Pyramid features

    • not tied to any DB
    • easy to be RESTful and deploy many independent instances to scale up
    • composition and reusability
    • powerful pluggable authentication and authorization system

  • Useful libraries

    • pyramid_facebook
    • ORMs and ODMs

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