Most of applications we create are basically loops. An average program waits for an event, then processes it following some business logic. Afterwards it begins waiting for another event to arrive. Java Servlets work this way too. Popular frameworks such as Spring allow us to only care about the business logic, while the framework takes care of the application main loop.
I’m a big fan of logging as much extra data as possible. I’m also a DRY approach believer. I feel strong anxiety when I see repetition in code. Combining all these “passions” is not always easy. It’s hard to log everything without repeating things. Even if it’s possible, it usually leads to inelegant code.
We are excited to announce that we have just released BigFlow 1.0 as open source. It’s a Python framework for big data processing on the Google Cloud Platform.
Recently I had a chance to take part in the first edition of a new Python event in Poland, PyWaw Summit conference. Python has a very active community in Poland, Europe and around the globe. What sets the community apart is its accessibility and friendliness. After all, as mentioned by Marc-André Lemburg in his PyWaw Summit day one keynote, the language is a tribute to Monty Python, and is designed to be fun. The fun factor and friendliness were evident at PyWaw Summit, a conference organized by Warsaw Python User Group. Being a sysadmin in my first ever conference devoted to programming only, I felt very welcome and got a lot of very useful first hand information on the newest features, trends and techniques from Python professionals.
At Allegro, we always try to pick the right tool for the job. As a result, despite focusing on JVM for implementing our services, we do use Python extensively for infrastructure automation and management.
