Ginger Tech Stack
Posted by Peter Baumgartner on April 23, 2012. Filed under django, ginger
For our latest product, Ginger, we wanted to marry the real-time functionality we needed with the traditional Django stack we know and love. After some false starts and falling on our faces in the beginning, we ended with a stack we’re happy with and think will serve us well moving forward.
Back-end
This is our bread-and-butter. It’s Django and PostgreSQL running with Gunicorn behind Nginx. The biggest difference between this and your typical Django site is that it mainly serves as a REST API consumed by the front-end. We are using traditional Django views in a few places like login, logout, and user profiles, but the rest of the views are handled by the front-end.
Using Django, we were able to quickly build the nuts-and-bolts parts of our site that didn’t require any special real-time functionality. A few of the important libraries we’re using:
- tastypie for ...