For the last month I have been playing around with WSGI in Python. WSGI is an interface between the web server and the web application, it is meant to simplify writing your own web framework in Python. My intention is not to write an fully fledged web framework, but rather just play around with some [...]
The workaround I tested a few weeks ago did not really solve my problem – actually it made it worse. The autorestart caused mono to hang and not restart at all, so my site stopped responding every 6th hour. I quickly had to disable this. Still I had the memory consumption problems. From various sources [...]
Lately I have been experiencing that the mod-mono-server2 process running on the server hosting the video upload web-service (I blogged about this in my last post) has been consuming a lot of memory. Once, it even reached the point where all memory (1.5GB) of the server was consumed and the Linux OOM-killer killed the mod-mono-server2 [...]
22 Mar, 2009
Posted by: Peter In: ASP.NET| Amazon Web Services| Linux| Mono| Python
A few months ago my employer asked me if it would be possible to create a web service for encoding videos. I had been playing around with Amazon’s web services for a while, and it seemed like the perfect foundation for building this.
I decided to build the backend in Python and use ffmpeg for encoding [...]
I needed to parse data from a series of web pages, usually i would have used CURL to download the page and then used regular expressions to extract the data i was interested in. But the page i was going to parse was using AJAX to reload part of the page (when you clicked the [...]