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 [...]