#160: Lektor: Beautiful websites out of flat files

Talk Python To Me

Michael Kennedy

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4.8 • 635 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2018

⏱️ 56 minutes

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What is the fastest, most scalable web platform? Is it Pyramid running on top of MongoDB with a Redis cache? Maybe Flask and Postgres as a service? Some funky Go API framework?

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0:00.0	What is the fastest, most scalable web platform out there? Is it pyramid running on top of MongoDB with a Redis cache?
0:06.3	Maybe Flask and Postgres as a service with some high-performance cluster or some funky Go API framework?
0:12.6	No, it's static files. But today, static files does not mean that you write a bunch of HTML.
0:18.4	With static site frameworks and generators like Lecter and Pelican,
0:22.0	you can use data to drive the creation of static sites
0:24.6	and then host them wherever makes the most sense for you.
0:27.2	On this episode, you'll meet Joseph Nix,
0:29.1	who works on Lecter, a Python-based static site generator.
0:32.5	This is Talk Python to Me.
0:33.7	Episode 160 recorded April 19th, 2018.
0:50.3	Music to me episode 160 recorded April 19th, 2018. Welcome to Talk Python to Me, a weekly podcast on Python, the language, the libraries, the ecosystem, and the personalities.
0:58.2	This is your host, Michael Kennedy. Follow me on Twitter where I'm at M. Kennedy.
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1:15.9	Hey, Joseph, welcome to Talk Python.
1:17.3	Hi, thanks for having me.
1:18.6	Yeah, it's great to have you here.
1:19.8	I'm really excited to talk about Lecter and more broadly,
1:23.0	these static site generators because there's such an interesting way to build web applications that I
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