Our Technology
FlowTheory Networks supports a wide range of technologies, but we have certain technologies we particularly specialize in. We frequently depend on these solutions to solve problems.
Django
Django is a web applications framework that faciliates rapid development of stable, scalable, secure data-driven websites. Django provides structural elements to encourage and support high-quality engineering practices, and it implements foundational web site elements common to all web applications, such as user management, sessions, caching, and internationalization. Django is used in websites run by enterprises such as the Washington Post, The Onion, National Geographic, and more.
Using Django permits FlowTheory Networks to focus on developing your specific data processing and presentation needs, as the vibrant community of talented engineers in the Django community handle the maintenance and development of the platform. The result: more functionality at a lower cost in half the development time.
Python
Django and other FlowTheory network software is written using the Python programming language. Using Python permits the development of easily maintainable, self-documenting, well-tested, and extremely fast software. Its features a very wide array of bindings to popular software libraries, making it simple to incorporate almost any common library into the language. Companies like Google, Industrial Light & Magic, NASA, and Nokia rely upon Python as their scripting language of choice.
jQuery
Modern websites can enhance the user experience through judicious use of client-side scripting — code that automates interaction in the web browser through automatic form manipulation, drop down menus, and other dynamic elements. The jQuery framework facilitates implementation of these user interface effects in a rapid, browser agnostic fashion. jQuery underlies user interface effects for companies like Google, Amazon.com, Netflix, and Twitter. FlowTheory engineers have the experience to recognize instances when jQuery's power is an appropriate enhancement.
GNU/Linux
FlowTheory Networks deploys its solutions on server systems running Ubuntu Linux and Debian GNU/Linux, two premier distributions of the GNU/Linux operating system. The two distributions are cousins, and both distributions have a diverse community of passionate developers and corporate backers. They feature a large body of tested and supported software packages, excellent responsiveness to security issues, and high performance kernels. Reliance on these systems minimizes deployment time and administration costs.
* FlowTheory Networks employs these technologies as part of its professional services. FlowTheory is not endorsed by or affiliated with the Django Software Foundation, the PythonSoftware Foundation, John Resig and the jQuery Team, Linus Torvalds and the Linux Foundation, the Free Software Foundation (for the GNU Project), Canonical Ltd. (for Ubuntu), or Software in the Public Interest (for Debian), and these brands and logos, while used here as fair-use, are trademarks of their respective owners.