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Process Kit Python processes made obvious

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Hi! Halo! Ola! I’m @oleiade I’m a software hater And I work at @botify

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I like obviousness

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And I like to fix things

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On a typical day trying to fix things

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#Unix is a masterpiece (Even though it chooses it’s friends…)

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#Python is awesome (As long as you know what to expect from it…)

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However…

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we found python processes interface was neither awesome nor obvious

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So we started digging into it. And gradually recoded it.

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“Those who do not understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.” Henry Spencer

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what’s the output of this?

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It will, sometimes, raise an AssertionError

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#Unix signals are asynchronous (don’t you forget…)

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However…

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terminate sends SIGTERM to the process

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Therefore…

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you have NO insurance when the process is actually stopped

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Schrodinger’s cat is watching you

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Explicit is better than implicit

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Pkit processes are patient

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Blocks until process really stopped

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Pkit processes are really patient

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Blocks until process signals handlers are overriden

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Pkit processes are cleaned

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Once a process is stopped, it’s execution context is collected

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Pkit processes are reusable

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Processes are reusable shells. Execute all the things into it.

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They are restartable

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Rexecute a task. Again, and again, and… Right, you’ve got it.

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Pkit processes code is plain

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No dust hidden under the carpet. Most of the things are public. Most of the things are easily overridable.

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Pkit processes expose callbacks

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You can set a callbacks to be ran at process startup or exit

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This is the end

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Process-kit is still work in progress

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It is evolving fast

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It was built with good intentions

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Go ahead, Fork it, Break it, Make it awesome github.com/botify-labs/process-kit

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Questions?