Swift is the software behind the OpenStack
Object Storage service.
This service provides a simple storage service for applications using
RESTful
interfaces ,
providing maximum data availability and storage capacity.
I explain here how some parts of the storage and replication in Swift works,
and show some of its current limitations.
If you don’t know Swift and want to read a more “shallow” overview first,
you can read John Dickinson’s Swift Tech
Overview .
Today I release a Python client library to query
Munin servers.
It took a while to get it out, but finally, 3 years after the latest release
(1.2), the version of 1.3 of xpyb
(the XCB
I use Google Calendar to manage my calendars,
and I really missed something to warn me whenever I have an appointment with
an alert set.
It has been a while since I blogged but I’ve been very busy, with my new job and this new blog!
This week I lost some time playing with Python ‘s
sets .
cairo has a Python binding
(pycairo) since a long time, and
some months ago a Python binding for XCB
(xpyb) has been released.
It’s not that often that I start something from scratch. It’s an amazing
feeling to start a new project, to start writing something new. I like
that. It’s creation, it’s an artistic part of our computing stuff. I feel
like a code artist.