People who want to benchmark an HTTP server usualy use tools such as Apache Benchmark or HTTPerf. The day I had do to it, it was against object storages: AWS S3 or DropBox, so I didn't have hands on servers. My goal was to measure object storages' performances as a real customer user (Cloudscreener ...

In Python packaged projects where I work, I used to add a make register command for create a new version of my package. This launch a script I wrote which make the following things:

1. Get the version number written in package
2. Create a git tag
3. Push the tag to the upstream
4. Create a package
5. Upload ...

Make a Wikipedia bot is one of the first thing I made in Python. I used to make toolbox, categories and tasks for sort articles. There are a lot of client library for use MediaWiki API, more than 20, and my goal wasn't really to use MediaWiki API but more to read and write ...

In some projects when I write unit test, I sometime need to have fixtures: a set of objects ready to use. As a Djangonaute, I used to deal with Factory Boy and django fixtures system but sometimes I can't use neither and for small usage list comprehesion or dict comprehension make the job.

For ...

Most users uses Libcloud only for make request against a compute service. In fact the library covers several IaaS components:

• Authentication
• Compute service
• Object storage and CDN
• DNS
• Load balancers

A driver is a Python class which after instanciation will allow you to handle one the service listed above (except authentication).

So, what's a ...

In past I worked for CloudScreener.com as DevOps, I had in my responsabilities clouds benchmark. Computes' performances was mesured against a lot VMs categorized by the current parameters:

• Size or flavor: Number of vCPU, RAM size and root volume size
• Image: Chosen OS
• Location: Datacenter or region

As many public clouds don't use ...

A long time ago before Google launched Google Cloud Platform, I played with App Engine and Django. Despite of the fact you must swith from Django usual tools (Celery or ORM) to Google services like Memcache or Task Queue, I was seduced by their fast deployment system.

A standard Django app is fastly adaptable to ...

You had fun, you wrote a Django third app. You should have write unittests before but you didn't know where to place them. For my case when I wrote Django Admin CLI I used the work made in Django Comments, let's explain it a little.

All testing code are stored in tests/ directory ...

In the Docker tsnuami where we are, most cloud company has their own public container offer:

• Google with Container Engine
• Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS)
• Joyent with Triton
• And more and more

Those services are stiil often in Beta or Alpha and for begin a turn around of this Docker compatible offers, I started by ...

One tool I use a long time ago is CSS mutli-column generator by Jerome Debray. This tools helps me to make a correct CSS for create <li> in sereral columns. Simple example:

• Column 1 - Row 1
• Column 1 - Row 2
• Column 2 - Row 1
• Column 2 - Row 2

CSS used:

-moz-column-count:2;
-webkit-column-count:2;
-o-column-count ...