Leafy Chat

by Alex Gaynor

TODO: Get the slides later

Intro

Using AJAX, comet, and lessons learned

LeafyChat

  • Used in Django Dash
  • Leah Culver, Chris Wainstroth
  • Orbited to handle proxying
  • Orbited for Comet
  • Twisted to handle IRC/Orbited connection
  • Used JSON as message packet format for EVERYTHING

Conclusiuons

  • Kinda works
  • Messy
    • IRC in same process as comment so it doesn’t scale
    • Any changes goes on the server, the client and the UI lib.

DjangoDose

  • Built in a week before than DjangoCon
  • Built on twisted, orbited, Django, and StompMQ
  • Brian Rosner, Eric Florenzano
  • Instead of individual channels just one channel on a message queue.
  • Works really well for larger scale
  • Initial users had repeats of early data

Hurricane

  • An attempt to take lessons learned from LeafyChat and DjangoDose and build a framework
  • Uses producers and consumers in a planned, managed method.
  • But done on no sleep over 40 hours - had abstraction issues
  • Tornado
  • Multiprocesses

Pycon 2010

  • Do the same thing as Hurricane but better. Include a lot more data (flickr, github) and users (Pycon)
  • Uses redis
  • Orbited proxies to a twisted Daeon
  • One backend process for each item (one for RSS, twitter, etc)
  • Don’t reinvent Orbited. Its really good at what it does

Conclusions

  • Use orbited
  • Asynchronous programming is hard