Memento: microservices

2015-04-08

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 …

Hot-swapping Python modules. An experiment.

2015-02-18

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 …

What I’ve been doing lately

2014-12-27

Lately my work has been mainly driven by the need to efficiently and smoothly deploy the Accounting module of OpenERP in my employer enterprise. But at the same time I’m responsible of several development and deployments in the enterprise.

The accounting-related tasks have made me to study the accounting …

Apples and Oranges. How books can mislead our thinking process.

2014-12-09

I’ve just began to read the book “Twisted Network Programming”… Twisted is a popular framework for networking programming. However, I’d probably skim most of the Book. I’m sorry… But as it happens, in the second page of the second chapter (the one that I began with) they …