karuth

I did not invent the term serverless. Generally the term serverless is used to refer to a cloud function concept.

Thanks for pointing this out. I will look into fixing this.

I created a site to demonstrate how to setup a blog on AWS lambda.

Are there a lot of quants in the US that use QuantLib? I see there is a large community in Europe and Canada. Would like to hear from fellow quants in the US on their experience using QuantLib.

I tried web2py a little bit. I liked the fact that a lot of basic things get setup initially. But all the globals confused the heck out of me. Couldn't quite understand the right way to test. It could be just me though!

I am happy using Flask these days!

Its not clear to me why you think "PHP is not a very good language for the majority of what we're building". In my opinion, you should have a strong reason for rewriting an application.

A good answer strongly depends on that. Here are some thoughts:

1) If it is for style and maintenance reasons, then Python with one of the frameworks (Flask is very easy to get started) would be a good start.

2) If performance is a reason, then see if you can separate out a portion of your PHP code to call the Go service. You can use message queues as a bridge between the services for better scalability.

For most applications pure Python will not hurt. Python is very productive to develop. If you need to scale in the future, you can identify bottlenecks and rewrite them.

This makes sense. Thanks for the input.