TornadoWeb is a great non-blocking web server written in Python and Boto3 is the Amazon Web Services (AWS) SDK for Python, which allows developers to write in a very easy manner software that makes use of Amazon services like S3. Unfortunately boto3 S3 wrapper is blocking and if you would just use it out of the box in a Tornado application it will block the main thread because it uses a synchronous HTTP client.
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Deploy cherrymusic using Nginx, Supervisord and Virtualenv on Ubuntu
Cherrymusic is a music streaming server written in python.
We assume the deployment is done in /home/user/music.domain.com
Cherrymusic
1. Go to the deployment folder and clone the cherrymusic repo
cd /home/user/music.domain.com git clone https://github.com/devsnd/cherrymusic
2. Create and enable the virtualenv
python3 -m venv music_env source music_env/bin/activate
3. Test if the cherrymusic server starts and stop it afterwords
python cherrymusic --setup --port 8080 (ctrl+c)
4. If you executed this commands under another user than the one under which you want to run cherrymusic
(eg: you ran the commands as root but you want to run under the user `user`)
mkdir -p /home/user/.config/cherrymusic cp ~/.config/cherrymusic/cherrymusic.conf /home/user/.config/cherrymusic/
5. Edit cherrymusic.conf from the `user`’s home and set the `basedir` with the path where your music collection is stored.
eg: /var/music
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Create Python3 virtualenv
sudo -H pip3 install --upgrade virtualenv virtualenv --verbose --no-site-packages -p /usr/bin/python3 ./myenv
Google Chrome UI extremely large
Today I updated google-chrome-stable to version 43.0.2357.124-1 and I had an unpleasant surprise. Everything was looking bigger: the top bar, the bookmark bar, the menus, the font on the website. Something like this:
It seems the fix is to start the chrome browser with –force-device-scale-factor option.
And the result is:
The UI looks again like before.
Create a Cassandra cluster with OpsCenter on Amazon EC2
Today I played a little with Cassandra on Amazon EC2. It was a very user friendly and pleasant experience to deploy a cluster with 2 nodes in one region using DataStax OpsCenter.
First I started a m1.small instance in Amazon EC2 where I installed OpsCenter. For this I chose Centos 6, the official AMI. Before starting to install OpsCenter, we need to configure the firewall in order to be able to access it. In AWS console, under the Security group, there is “CentOS 6 -x86_64- – with Updates-6 – 2014-09-29-AutogenByAWSMP-“. We need to righ-click on it and Edit inbound rules. Here we add a new Custom TCP Rule with port 8888 and the Source IP: My IP.
Anyway, I noticed that the instance has also an iptables firewall and the port 8888 is not open. So, on the instance I did:
iptables -I INPUT 4 -p tcp --dport 8888 -j ACCEPT iptables-save | tee /etc/sysconfig/iptables
Now, we can install OpsCenter. All you need to do is to follow the installation guide for RPM package from DataStax:
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