Revision as of 22:36, 18 November 2013

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retry everything, fail gently
no in-memory state (including call stack)
support multiple endpoints (db, redis, rabbitmq, etc) [e.g. no single-point-of-failure]
sync + caching, you have slightly stale data but still keep running if the service you need to query is down
run multiple copies of the app at once without conflicts

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 * daemons:
 ** don't manage, use supervisord
-**
+** '''not''' async if you can help it
+*** shell out to celery
+** tasks: ?
+** general:
+*** requests
+= Resiliency =
+* retry everything, fail gently
+* no in-memory state (including call stack)
+* support multiple endpoints (db, redis, rabbitmq, etc) [e.g. no single-point-of-failure]
+* sync + caching, you have slightly stale data but still keep running if the service you need to query is down
+* run multiple copies of the app at once without conflicts
+= Deployment =
+* db:
+** clustered mysql - innodb vs myisam.
+** nosql - redis
+* mq:
+** rabbitmq
+* logging:
+** log to stdout (use python logging)
+* use supervisord
+* deploy python packages
+* semantic versioning (semver.org)
+= Auth =
+= Documentation =
+= Security =
+* passwords
+* secrets
+= Performance =
+* multi-threading
+* scalability
+* configuration