A very cool article on how to use Python on the browser. Maybe it is a bit heavyweight thing to do, because your Python code will be interpreted by a Silverlight application that acts as a Python interpreter, but it is ok for people like me who know how to program in Python but hate Javascript…
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libevent 2.0
17Mar10This is a description of the new features that can be found in libevent 2.x. One of the main reasons for using it would be the inclusion of sendfile() operations (where the OS does all the work when sending large files from disk), and big performance improvements, specially in the HTTP code:
Preliminary results around April [...]
Filesystems for CDNs
14Mar10XtreemFS. It seems to have all the neccessary things for developing you own CDN at the OS level with minimum effort. Similar to Coda, but it gives you on-demand file replication (read-only, of course) on WAN environments, POSIX semantics (so you don’t need to modify you application) , stripping and parallel I/O (equals to high [...]
Video codecs
02Mar10An interesting article on video codecs licensing and how we are all being out of the law. The conclusion is very simple: Theora is a free standard we can all use for commercial purposes, we know, but just because it is not widely used!. Otherwise, legions of unknown patent holders would sue you right when [...]
gevent performance
17Feb10I´m using gevent for implementing a basic HTTP stresser and I must say I´m impressed with the performance I can get with this framework. My program launches thousands of HTTP requests (with urllib2) to my server, asking for very long files (>200MBytes), and I´m getting up to 2 Gbit/sec with almost no CPU usage in [...]
