I’m sort of obsessed about iteration speed. I’ve written about this in the past and it deserves more posts in the future, but the quick summary is that iteration speed is always going to be the strongest competitive advantage in this industry. There’s of course many ways we can iterate faster, but for today let’s focus on two particular aspects of it: testing and deploying more often.
This is the first in a series of posts in which I’m going to go through the process of building a web application (and its web server) from scratch in Python. For the purposes of this series, I’m going to solely rely on the Python standard library and I’m going to ignore the WSGI standard. Without further ado, let’s get to it! The web server To begin with, we’re going to write the HTTP server that will power our web app.