The new Apache Mesos HTTP API We are currently in the process of releasing Mesos 0.24 which introduces a new HTTP API for Frameworks, which are now able to interact with the Scheduler using only JSON payloads. This simplifies the interaction between Frameworks and Mesos, while maintaining the highly scalable and reliable nature of the platform: … More Apache Mesos HTTP API – example IPython notebook
And hard-coded strings are the tools of the devil. On my NAS I had implemented a simple script to alert me of failures on various scripts/backup jobs, using the Mandrill API and that had worked just fine for quite a while. However, it recently had started failing with the following tracelog: 01/01/2015 19:59:08 [INFO] Starting … More Globals are evil
Today I’ve opened access to my sentinel repo which is still at a very early stage development, but I thought was worth sharing with others. I’ve been using Scala on and off for the past couple of years, since I’ve completed the Coursera Scala course (passed with 95% and distinction, obviously!); however, to really learn a language (and … More REST-based User Management web service in Scala
I recently came across LaunchKey and decided to try out their authentication API – the `gist` presented here is an example Flask (python) server that demonstrates how to authenticate a user using their APIs and return back an application-specific API KEY that can then subsequently be used to sign (and therefore authenticate) all subsequent requests. … More Authenticating via LaunchKey
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