REST with Python: awesome API development tools and docs

Here goes a collection of links I find very useful to keep handy regarding RESTful APIs and Python:

Frameworks/libraries

• eve: Python REST API Framework (Flask, MongoDB and Redis)
• Partial JSON API implementation in Python
• JSONAPI implementation for use with SQLAlchemy
• Django REST framework
• Tastypie (for Django)
• Flask-RESTful
• Flask API (lots of future and nice projection, not the best documentation)
• Flask-Restless (only for SQLAlchemy, but with a lot of features like pagination, filters, pre/post-processors, etc.)
• Restless is a lightweight API framework that aims to be framework agnostic.
• Implementation of JSON Schema for Python
• A Practical API Design Framework

Videos/blog posts/Tutorials

• Developing RESTful Web APIs with Flask and mongodb (from the author of eve).
• Versioned and versionless APIs
• Designing a RESTful Web API
• HTTP API Design Guide
• REST API Tutorial
• 18F API Standards
• Designing a Beautiful REST+JSON API (blog post)

Others

• API Testing for Humans
• Very good/interesting: http://raml.org/ Tools: http://raml.org/projects.html
• http://www.intridea.com/blog/2010/4/29/rest-isnt-what-you-think-it-is

Dealing with speed

• json, from the Python standard library, is slow and performance can be improved using ujson
• SQLAlchemy has an option to cache connections: connection pool.

Special thanks to Juan Norris for creating and letting me share the original document here.