Building data-driven web apps with Pyramid and SQLAlchemy Transcripts
Chapter: Modeling data with SQLAlchemy classes
Lecture: Who uses SQLAlchemy?
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When you choose a framework
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whether that's for a database or web framework
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it's good to know that you're in good company
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that other companies and products have already tested this
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and looked around and decided
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yeah, SQLAlchemy is a great choice.
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So let's look at some of the popular deployments.
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Dropbox is a user of SQLAlchemy and Dropbox is
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one of the most significant Python shops out there.
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Guido van Rossum and some of the other
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core developers work there
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and almost everything they do is in Python
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so the fact that they use SQLAlchemy
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that's a very high vote of confidence.
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Uber, Uber uses SQLAlchemy.
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Reddit, Reddit's interesting in that
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they don't use the ORM, but in fact they use only the core
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at least a while ago they were using only the core aspect
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of SQLAlchemy, that's pretty cool.
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Firefox, Mozilla, more properly, is using SQLAlchemy.
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OpenStack makes heavy use of SQLAlchemy.
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FreshBooks, the accounting software
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based on, you guessed it, SQLAlchemy.
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We've got Hulu, Yelp, TriMet
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that's the Public Transit Authority
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for all of Portland, Oregon
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the trains, the buses and things like that
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so they use that as well.
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So here are just a couple of the companies
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and products that use SQLAlchemy.
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There's some really high pressure, some of these are under
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you know if it's working for them
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it's going to work well for you, especially Reddit
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Reddit gets a crazy amount of traffic.
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So pretty interesting that they're all using it
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and we'll see why in a little bit.
