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

Mon Jan 17 23:07:17 PST 2011

I will also be there :-)

Cheers,
Russell Smith

On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 12:10 PM, Charles L. Phillips <
tptbusines_98 at yahoo.com> wrote:

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> Thank you,
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> --- On Mon, 1/17/11, socal-piggies-request at lists.idyll.org <
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> >    1. Re: Confirmed meeting: Thursday Jan
> > 20th at    Technical
> >       Connections (Grig Gheorghiu)
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> > Message: 1
> > 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
> > To: SoCal Python Interest Group <socal-piggies at lists.idyll.org>
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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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