[socal-piggies] Confirmed meeting: Thursday Jan 20th at Technical Connections

[Grig Gheorghiu]

Hi again everybody

Just a reminder that the meeting will happen this coming Thursday
01/20 at Technical Connections.

Agenda:

Jessica Stanton and Warren Runk:  Nudge: “Is your service a ‘goer,’
know what I mean?” (see description below)
Grig Gheorghiu: Working in the multi-cloud with libcloud

I have the following people signed up so far:

Keith Bussell
Michael Elkins
Josh Frederick
Marco Garcia
Grig Gheorghiu
Paul Hildebrandt
Christopher Mahan
Dan Mesh
John Mitchell
Charles Phillips
John Schofield
Jessica Stanton
Mel Raab
Francis Ridder
Warren Runk

If you are not on this list but would like to attend, please reply to
me personally and I'll add you. Who knows, we might even get pizza
this time ;-)

Grig

On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Grig Gheorghiu
<grig.gheorghiu at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> We have sufficient interest for this meeting, so let's do it! We also
> have at least 1 presenter, Jessica Stanton from Evite. Here is the
> title and abstract of her talk, which she wrote together with Warren
> Runk (also from Evite):
>
> ===========================================
> Title: Nudge: “Is your service a ‘goer,’ know what I mean?”
>
> Authors: Jessica Stanton, Warren Runk
>
> Abstract:
>
> REST has become a major part of most Web developers’ lives, and common
> open-source web servers such as Django or Tornado require a lot of
> copy/paste code or overly complicated logic for handling applications
> with a large number of REST endpoints.  Nudge rectifies this by
> decoupling the REST layer from the actual service layer and
> abstracting each endpoint for a cleaner, simpler experience.  Nudge
> takes a list of Endpoints and publishes them on a given port.  Each
> Endpoint consists of a URL regex, an HTTP method, the mapped service
> method, sequential and named inputs parsed from the request (args,
> headers and body), a dictionary of the possible Exceptions to an HTTP
> Code, as well as optionally a transformer to allow for varied return
> types.  Essentially, an Endpoint is a wrapper for a regular method
> that magically handles all things REST related so the method doesn’t
> have to.
>
> The three largest concerns for any system are scalability,
> consistency, and documentation of both API and deployment.  We use
> Nudge in our production environment at Evite. We are one of the top
> 700 web sites in the world in terms of traffic, so it is of supreme
> importance that we can scale our services with ease both in
> development and in deployment.  We work with external contractors on a
> frequent basis, and this requires our services to be digestible,
> discoverable and to behave consistently and understandably in regards
> to both responses and errors.  One of the hardest things to maintain
> (or get devs to actually do) is documentation.  The Nudge interface is
> described in a compact and programmatic way, allowing us to generate
> documentation that stays up to date with no effort.
>
> In this presentation, we will give an overview of the problems
> encountered while using standard web servers such as Tornado, and show
> concrete examples of how Nudge mitigates them.  We will also show how
> Nudge also makes it really easy to mix and match groups of endpoints
> so the deployment configuration can be easily changed.
> ===========================================
>
> If nobody else volunteers to present, I can talk about libcloud
> (libcloud.org), a Python library which offers a unified interface to
> multiple cloud providers.
>
> Location and time details for the meeting:
>
> Location: Technical Connections office, West L.A. (11400 Olympic
> Boulevard, Suite 700, CA 90064)
>
> Google Map: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=11400+Olympic+Boulevard,+Suite+700,+LA+90064&ie=UTF8&z=16&iwloc=addr
>
> Date and time: Thursday January 20th at 7 PM
>
>
> Please reply to me personally (not to the group) if you will be
> attending, we need a list of attendees to leave with the security in
> the lobby of the building.
>
> Grig
>