Key Development Technologies

We’re using the following technologies:

bandit

Security static code analyser for Python code

celery

Asyncronous task queue/job queue used internally within Mataara and for scheduled jobs

fabric

Provides developers with shortcuts to standard tasks, such as running the server

flake8

Perform Python checks for linting errors

Gunicorn ‘Green Unicorn’

A Python WSGI HTTP server. Designed to be lightweight and speedy.

pip

Perform Python package management

puppet

Used by Vagrant to configure Mataara inside the virtual machine

redis

In-memory data store used by celery

Sphinx

Used to generate this documentation

supervisor

Used to control system services outside of the main Django application, such as celery

Vagrant

Used for managing and initialising the development environment inside VirtualBox

VirtualBox

Provides virtualisation of a development environment containing the server

wheel

Used for packing Python modules and applications for easy installation