Tag Archive : REST

Techniques for Request-Response and Publish-Subscribe in the Browser

I am going to describe two current techniques for building web applications and services that produce/consume data either by Request-Response or by Publish-Subscribe. All web browsers support HTTP which is inherently a request-response protocol typically built on top of TCP. It is used to serve HTML documents (for human consumption) but can also be used [...]

Getting Started with Quixote

Quixote is an open source Python project that has the distinction of being one of the earliest Python “web frameworks”. Other frameworks that came later and gained more popularity (eg: django, Pylons, Turbogears, Cherrpy) can attribute some of their design influences to Quixote. It still has an active user community, albeit it is not as [...]