The Alchemax Tech List.
Here is the list of what's hot with us right now. We always look to find the right tool for the problem we
have so keep an eye out as we will update as we share new tech that works for us.
Python
Everything we do revolves around Python we love it and its the perfect glue which we build everything with..
Django
If its good enough for Instagram then its good enough for us. But seriously its a
great framework for web development.
AWS
For cloud we choose AWS. We are all over lambda and anything serverless.
It plays nice with Python and as such wins with us as a cloud provider.
Docker
We have really got into containerisation when we need it and docker plays a bit part in what
we do allowing us to spin up and deploy much faster than we could before.
Gitlab
It goes without saying you need to use git and we prefer gitlab. One of the main reasons
is its CI/CD solution which is really easy to use and why make life harder for yourself.
Postgres
Given the adoption of Django it makes sense to use Postgres as our database of choice. We use
it to adopt a SQL/NoSQL hybrid across our projects.
Fast API
With both Flask and Django mentioned for APIs we have a new kid on the block in FastAPI.
Its currently in use for an internal project but it was a worthy addition and it could take over from Flask for us.
Poetry
We turned to Poetry for virtual environments based on a reccomendations and we havent looked back.
It just feels the right way to work in virtual environments and it works great with our CI/CD.