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MmStats in Scripts 3 Oct 2012 | 12:27 pm
MmStats is a library I created to expose and read statistics, metrics, and debugging information from running Python processes without the overhead of syscalls (eg writing to a socket or file) or thre...
Building Python 2.6.8 on Ubuntu 12.04 30 May 2012 | 10:17 am
Ubuntu 12.04 builds OpenSSL without SSLv2. Python 2.6.8 expects OpenSSL to be built with SSLv2. This is a bug that has been fixed in Python 2.7+, but it wasn’t backported for Python 2.6. So if you b...
Failing with MongoDB 6 Nov 2011 | 08:06 am
Update: Sorry this isn’t my best piece of writing and there seems to be some confusion. The dataset in question was first in a 1.8 master/slave pair and then migrated to sharded replica sets and 2.0.0...
MemoryMapFile Convenience Class for Python 6 Sep 2011 | 05:54 pm
My obsession with mmap hasn’t died, but while Python’s mmap module is a wonderful low level library it’s a bit hard for a newcomer to use properly. I’ve started toying with a convenience wrapper clas...
Sharing Python data between processes using mmap 16 May 2011 | 04:28 pm
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 coul...
signalfd 21 Feb 2011 | 07:50 pm
This article covers signalfd, a system call only available on Linux. If anyone knows of an equivalent for OSX or BSDs, * please let me know. It’d be great to create a compatibility layer. Writing asy...
schmongodb slides from Update Portland 3 Feb 2011 | 07:37 pm
A few months ago someone in #pdxwebdev on Freenode asked an innocent MongoDB question. In response I ranted seemingly endlessly about our experience with MongoDB at Urban Airship. After a few moments ...
