Django for backend & APIs

As Python experts, we worked with a major french investment manager, who needed a Python development agency to help create innovative asset management solutions.

We produced several specialist apps, allowing advisors to show investment simulations to their clients, and let them play with it. The whole backend for these apps is built upon several Python microservices, each specialised on a certain job, keeping them really simple and easy to work on for several teams. As an example, we got a microservice only handling the huge database and exposing data. Another one is taking care of sending emails for all the apps.

Using Python let us develop these modules rapidly and made it easy to create new backends on the fly. Furthermore, thanks to SQLAlchemy (an open source database library) we had no issue handling the massive database of our clients.

Django is a widely used web framework, its design philosophy emphasises rapid development and clean code. It comes battery-included with all the security, authentication and admin interface features you'd expect in a web application. Instagram, the Washington Post, Spotify and other large tech companies use it to power their websites. At Theodo, we've used Django to develop a range of web applications including a customer-facing platform which has been rolled-out nationwide, APIs for the backend of mobile applications, and more.