Scalable and secure Python REST backends - Gerard Lutterop

Provide a scalable and secure REST based backend with Python

REST based backends are a boon for front end developers, since connecting the front end to the business logic and data layer is very straightforward using standard internet technologies.

Providing a REST backend turns out to be very difficult, when you want to adhere to the 'real' REST standards.

We used Python to develop a framework which is agnostic to the web framework and to the database. The interface can be specified declaratively using a standard language, to which our framework is also agnostic. All non-standard logic is implemented using Python on pre-defined events.

This framework turns out to be extremely productive, not only for the programmer, but especially for the designer of the interface. Implementing a battleproof REST based interface is literally one click away.