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Deploying Python behind Nginx Talk Slides

Michael Schurter — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 18:52:13 +0000

I gave a talk on deploying Python WSGI apps behind nginx at the Portland Python User Group meeting on January 11th and finally got around to publishing the slides: schmingx.

I should mention Jason Kirtland informed me after the meeting that FastCGI supports persistent connections (and a host of other features) between a load balancer and backend app servers.

Python Packaging Talk

Michael Schurter — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:29:01 +0000

I gave a talk at PDX Python last night on Python Packaging. It’s just an overview and introduction completely lacking in any practical examples.

Let me know if the ODP source is messed up. OpenOffice.org liked randomly losing background images and forgetting other formatting.

So as penance I quick hacked up a silly little command line utility and uploaded it to PyPI to serve as a simple packaging example:

It’d be nice to add some more advanced features like test running, including package data, and building C extensions. If you feel adventurous please fork it and send me a pull request on BitBucket.

Thanks to everyone who came to PDX Python last night! Especially Armin Ronacher who was able to clarify and elaborate on a number of different distutils/setuptools topics!

Update: Just spotted an excellent post on distutils and setuptools by Tarek Ziadé. Make sure to read his blog if you’re interested in packaging in Python.

Tokyo {Cabinet, [Py]Tyrant} Talk

Michael Schurter — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:38:09 +0000

I did an introductory talk on Tokyo Cabinet, Tokyo Tyrant, pytc, and PyTyrant at the Portland Python User Group meeting last night.

It was definitely just an introductory talk, so if you’re already familiar with these projects it probably won’t be very interesting.

Errata: My slides state PyTyrant 1.1.11 doesn’t work with Tokyo Tyrant 1.1.17 — this is wrong. I don’t know what I was doing yesterday, but today all my tests work on Tokyo Tyrant 1.1.17.