May 1, 2012

Note

I co-organized the event and gave a talk!

spire.io stack

• By Jason Campbell, http://twitter.com/jxson
• One of the guys at http://spire.io
• Details at http://www.spire.io/posts/our-architecture.html

Stack:

• node.js
• coffeescript.js
• reddis
• Ruby (actually jruby)
• Lots of workers and controls of them.

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Django and MongoDB: The State of Things

• By myself
• Slides forthcoming

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Bringing down the system using Python to save lives

• By Randall Degges

The issue

• Syrian Uprising
• Military killing civilians

What can I do to help?

• Shut down military communications!

BUT HOW?!?

F@#$ the government!

• Syrian military monitoring civilian communications then dropping bombs
• How to protect people fighting a terrible regime?
• Shut down the system!

Using Voip to save lives

• Use Asterisk and pycall to make millions calls
• just a few bytes to make the call

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Why Pyramid?

• By Michael R
• CTO of http://cars.com
• Known on IRC as ‘goodwill’
• Organized the PyCon Web Summit

Very flexible

• Any template engine
• Any ORM or ODM

Support

• Fast, 100% test coverage, well-documented
• Open source with strong community support
• Pay for what you get

What Pyramid doesn’t do

• Make choices for you
• No assumptions about the structure of your application

Features

• Creates a WSGI-compliant application
• Handles HTTP requests and responses
• views, requests, and more
• Awesome t-shirt
• Works with gevent for asynchronous behavior

Example

from paste.httpserver import serve
from pyramid.config import Configurator
from pyramid.response import Response

def hello_world(request):
    return Response('Hello, World!')

if __name__ == '__main__':
    config = Configurator()
    config.add_view(hello_world)
    app = config.make_wsgi_app()
    serve(app, host='127.0.0.1')

Note

Finish rest of sample app

Boilerplate available

• Libraries
• Scaffolding (see http://pyramid.opencomparison.org/categories/application-scaffolding/)
• FormAlchemy can do roughly what Django admin

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Heartshark

by Daniel Stewart

• https://github/heartshark

Plan

• A tool to help you make up for lost meetups.
• People list people they saw on craigslist.
• Parses the craiglist data to figure out where, when, and other details.