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A rant about unclear code, using plain numbers instead of meaningful constants.

A recollection of the process to upgrade from OpenERP to Odoo.

For the upgrade process we used OpenUpgrade and the CRM fork by Stefan Rijnhart. There were unexpected failures, bug fixes, learnings about the behavior of our users, and more. A true challenge.

Lately there’s been a raise of the debate about Microservices architectures. Reading about the stuff I realized I did once architect an application called Pyxel based on the same principles, though different.

Pyxel reached only its first prototype and was never actually deployed. I’d say it wasn’t …

A new project I’m involved with will probably require dozens of servers running several thousands greenlets each. Top-level greenlets represent jobs and their children will be individual tasks those greenlets are coordinating/supervising.

This model, however prototypical, resembles that of the OTP in Erlang. A greenlet may be either …