Behind the Scenes at Fiesta

A look at the technology behind fiesta.cc - MongoDB, Postfix, Python, Puppet, and some more. Given at PyGotham in September 2011

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1. at Mike Dirolf @mdirolf mike@corp.fiesta.cc Behind the Scenes
4. Email
6. def process_message(...): do_something_cool(...)
7. http://lamsonproject.org/
8. http://www.postfix.org/
9. virtual_transport = smtp:127.0.0.1:2525 virtual_mailbox_domains = fiesta.cc main.cf
10. class MyServer(smtpd.SMTPServer): def process_message(self, peer, sndr, rcpts, data): do_something_cool(...) server = MyServer((“127.0.0.1”, 2525), None) asyncore.loop() http://docs.python.org/library/smtpd.html
11. Other Options ESP Something  like  the  Fiesta  API
12. MongoDB
13. A Fiesta User {addresses:  ["mike@dirolf.com",                          "mike@corp.fiesta.cc"],  first:  "Mike",  last:  "Dirolf",  pw:  "...",  groups:  [      {address:  "mike@dirolf.com",        name:  "family",        id:  ObjectId("...")},      {address:  "mike@dirolf.com",        name:  "rovers",        id:  ObjectId("...")}]}
14. Flexible “Schemas” {“author”:  “mike”,  “text”:  “...”} {“author”:  “eliot”,  “text”:  “...”,  “tags”:  [“mongodb”]}
15. To munge, or not to munge...
16. if user.get("munge", True): do_munge(...)
17. PyMongo db.users.insert({“name”: “Mike”})
18. Web
19. http://nginx.org/
20. Framework fiesta.cc  -­‐>  http://bottlepy.org api.fiesta.cc  -­‐>  http://flask.pocoo.org
21. @app.route("/membership/<oid:group_id>", methods=[“POST”]) def add_to_group(group_id): ...
22. Ops
24. http://puppetlabs.com/
25. class mongodb { yumrepo { "10gen": baseurl => "...” descr => "10gen Repository", enabled => 1 } package { "mongo-10gen-server": ensure => present, require => Yumrepo["10gen"] } }
26. Replication @ Fiesta primary passive secondary primary backups backups
27. http://munin-monitoring.org/
28. Give  Fiesta  a  try Send  me  questions   about  this  presentation   or  ask  for  API  info Mike  Dirolf @mdirolf mike@corp.fiesta.cc