For all the promise that exists for startups in Asia, there persists a list of reasons why companies cant succeed. Talent, in particular, tech talent is certainly an often stated constraint. The reality is that there is home grown talent kicking ass!
I order to show-case the talent that exists in Asia, I’m running a series of guest posts from awesome CTOs and their dev teams from across Asia. My hope is that by illustrating the great talent that is already hacking away we can inspire the next generation of great coders and draw more talent into the ecosystem (From big, boring corporations ;)). Also if you are a dev looking to join the companies featured, reach out!
Our first episode is from Subho Halder and Dhilip Siva of Appknox.
Describe Appknox in 2-3 sentences.
Appknox helps developers and enterprises to uncover and fix security loopholes in mobile applications.
Securing your app is as simple as submitting your store link / uploading your app. We scan for security vulnerabilities and report back to you with vulnerabilities.
What are your primary programming languages?
Our primary programming languages consist of Python & Shell for the Back-end and CoffeeScript and LESS for Front-end.
Our full stack is:
- Django
- MySQL
- RabbitMQ
- Celery
- Redis
- Memcached
- Varnish
- Nginx
- Ember
What is your architecture and how does it work?
Architecture
To graphically illustrate how it works is as follows:
How it works?
Web frameworks
Data Layer
Reasons for choosing the stack
Things don’t always go as expected- scaling sockets!
Our one big recommendation
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