Tag: python

File Encryption Utility now offers file sharing

October 16, 2017

With the 0.5.0 version just released, crytto now allows file sharing (e.g., via email) by sharing public keys: encrypt_send -o /tmp/my-secret.enc \ -p /home/marco/.ssh/my-key.pub \ ./my-secret.doc This generates an encrypted file (in the location specified with the -o option) and an equally encrypted “passphrase” which can then be sent (ideally via a separate sharing mechanism; although, as … More File Encryption Utility now offers file sharing

File Encryption (and Decryption) Made Easy

August 30, 2017

A new release of the Crytto library (0.4.0) has just been published, which greatly simplifies encrypting (and decrypting) files The new release adds the decrypt script which, when combined with the existing automatic retrieval of the encryption key from the keystore, makes it a breeze to decrypt files. For example, if you had encrypted your … More File Encryption (and Decryption) Made Easy

HOW-TO Publish a Pyton Package on PyPi

September 19, 2016

Create a setup.py file The arguments for setup() are documented here and are non-trivial: a good example is my filecrypt‘s setup.py file. NOTE Do not confuse setuptools with distutils – this is the correct import for setup.py: from setuptools import setup The trickiest part is figuring out the packages, modules and the script files: probably … More HOW-TO Publish a Pyton Package on PyPi

A python notebook to experiment with the Apache Mesos HTTP API – Part 3 of 3

September 3, 2016

This is the third and final part of a three-part series: Part 1 describes the required setup and how to get Apache Mesos Master and Agent running in two Vagrant VMs; Part 2 shows how to connect to the HTTP API and accept resource offers. This series is an extended (and updated) version of the … More A python notebook to experiment with the Apache Mesos HTTP API – Part 3 of 3

A python notebook to experiment with the Apache Mesos HTTP API – Part 2 of 3

September 2, 2016

This is the second part of a three-part series: Part 1 describes the required setup and how to get Apache Mesos Master and Agent running in two Vagrant VMs This series is an extended (and updated) version of the talk I gave at MesosCon Europe 2015 updated for Apache Mesos 1.0.0, which has just been … More A python notebook to experiment with the Apache Mesos HTTP API – Part 2 of 3

Apache Mesos HTTP API – example IPython notebook

August 23, 2015

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

Building a Spark / SciPy / Cassandra “SparkLab” on AWS

February 16, 2015

I have just completed for a client a complete setup of a “SparkLab” on a cluster of AWS machines: the setup has been completely automated via a Bash script which I have published to this public github gist. The following is a copy of the README file there; the script can be used also on … More Building a Spark / SciPy / Cassandra “SparkLab” on AWS

Globals are evil

January 2, 2015

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