Tag: tutorial

A python notebook to experiment with the Apache Mesos HTTP API – Part 1 of 3

August 27, 2016

This is the first of a series of three articles that shows how to setup a Vagrant-based Apache Mesos test/development environment on your laptop; then how to run a Python notebook against the HTTP API; and finally, how to launch Docker containers on the running Agent VM. It is pretty jam-packed and requires a certain … More A python notebook to experiment with the Apache Mesos HTTP API – Part 1 of 3

Using Stout to parse command-line options

May 14, 2015

A new post of mine has just been published on Mesosphere Blog: Almost every program needs to parse some form of command-line argument. Often, this is a pretty large set of possible options, and the management of the various options is usually pretty tedious while adding virtually no value to the program’s functionality. Google’s gflags … More Using Stout to parse command-line options

Python Decorators

January 6, 2013

I’ve now been working in Python for more than a year and we have been doing some pretty crazy stuff, especially around decorators and authorization/permissions implementations. Admittedly, Python decorators are one of the bits of the language that can be best defined as ‘magic’ and certainly remains puzzling for someone like me, used to Java … More Python Decorators