Tag Archives: Python

Sharing Python data between processes using mmap

Posted on May 15, 2011 by Michael Schurter

I’ve been toying with an idea of exposing statistics for a Python application via shared memory to keep the performance impact on the application as low as possible. The goal being an application could passively expose a number of metrics … Continue reading →

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Switched tc-rest to webob

Posted on August 10, 2009 by Michael Schurter

Small update on my toy tc-rest project: I switched to using WebOb for creating HTTP Request and Response objects. Cleaned up the code a bit, but a real dispatcher is what’s needed to really remove the cruft. I’m anxious to … Continue reading →

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TokyoCabinet + fapws3 = tc-rest

Posted on August 8, 2009 by Michael Schurter

Have you ever wondered how hard it would be to tack a RESTful HTTP interface on top of a fast key/value database like TokyoCabinet? Probably not, but I did: tc-rest.tar.gz Components: TokyoCabinet – my favorite persistent key/value database pytc – … Continue reading →

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Tokyo {Cabinet, [Py]Tyrant} Talk

Posted on March 11, 2009 by Michael Schurter

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 … Continue reading →

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(Yet Another) Deploying Django with CherryPy Script

Posted on February 18, 2009 by Michael Schurter

Recently I deployed a Django project on an OSX server. I foolishly thought this would be as easy as on Linux until I ran into the mess that is x86_64 Apache + mod_wsgi* + Django + psycopg2 + i386 PostgreSQL. … Continue reading →

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Web Server Quandary

Posted on December 27, 2008 by Michael Schurter

Apache was probably the first Linux application I learned how to configure. However, I’ve gotten a bit frustrated with it recently… The Problem A memory leak. Apache is eating up memory so quickly that I need to restart it every … Continue reading →

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