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craigkerstiens
32,048karma·2,512submissions·September 20, 2008
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I work at Snowflake building best in class Postgres via Crunchy Data, building Snowflake Postgres - a multi-cloud Postgres managed service. Previously I ran product at Azure Postgres, product at Citus data, and a number of product areas at Heroku.
You can find more thoughts from me: https://www.craigkerstiens.com
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I'll fully admit this article is much lighter than the future ones, a large part of this is to set the baseline for how basic structure works. Many companies work in a top down structure or set standa…
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No worries, fully agree more people need to be using and using it to what its capable of.
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Adding virtualenv is definitely one more layer of complexity, however installing everything to site-packages is asking for a lot of trouble to new users that don't understand whats going on. As soon a…
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You're slightly ahead of my next post which calls out some of the more advanced ways of using it.
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We do not automatically use a wsgi server because we want to offer flexibility to our users. Additionally we felt that having less magic in what we automatically do to your application (other than run…
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Flask is very lightweight and simple to get up and running. We also have a guide within the devcenter to get up and running with Django: http://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/django …