Katie Miller: Cloud Craft for Spatial Cadets

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Katie Miller:
Cloud Craft for Spatial Cadets
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@ Kiwi PyCon 2014 - Sunday, 14 Sep 2014 - Track 1
http://kiwi.pycon.org/

http://cloudcraft.codemiller.com/

**Audience level**

Novice

**Description**

This session will give you the necessary know-how to get started with your own cloud-based mapping app project. The talk will cover the basics of Platform as a Service and introduce the open source OpenShift PaaS. Katie will demonstrate how to fire up an auto-scaling spatial app on OpenShift using Python and MongoDB, before hitting the app with some load to test the scaling spatial goodness.

**Abstract**

All over the web people are doing amazing things with spatial; this session will give you the necessary know-how to get started with your own cloud-based mapping app project. The talk will cover the basics of Platform as a Service and introduce Red Hat's open source OpenShift PaaS. There will be a demonstration of how to fire up an auto-scaling spatial app with Python and MongoDB on OpenShift. We will then hit the app with some load to experiment with the scaling spatial goodness.

**YouTube**

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI9VNrXYIQM

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