To get the most out of this book

In order to execute the code from this book on your local machine, you will need the following:

• An internet connection
• Virtualenv
• Python 3.6
• MongoDB 3.2.11
• pgAdmin (refer to the official documentation at http://url.marcuspen.com/pgadmin for installation instructions)
• Docker (refer to the official documentation at http://url.marcuspen.com/docker-install for installation instructions)

All other requirements will be installed as we progress through the chapters.
All instructions in this chapter are tailored toward macOS or Debian/Ubuntu systems; however, the authors have taken care to only use cross-platform dependencies.