[socal-piggies] socal-piggies Digest, Vol 71, Issue 8 - Response

Mon Jan 17 12:10:10 PST 2011

I'll be there...

Thank you,

Inquire_98

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--- On Mon, 1/17/11, socal-piggies-request at lists.idyll.org <socal-piggies-request at lists.idyll.org> wrote:

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> Today's Topics:
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>    1. Re: Confirmed meeting: Thursday Jan
> 20th at    Technical
>       Connections (Grig Gheorghiu)
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> Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 13:57:07 -0800
> From: Grig Gheorghiu <grig.gheorghiu at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [socal-piggies] Confirmed meeting: Thursday
> Jan 20th at
>     Technical Connections
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> 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
> >
> 
> 
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