4 posts tagged with "python"

So, you've got lots of Python code being executed from your Elixir app, and lots of ad-hoc calling of your Python code. On one hand, you want to dynamically scale to manage demand, but at the same time, you don't want to accidentally crash your application by starting too many Python processes. So... what what's a frazzled developer gotta do to save himself some headache? The key problem that we are trying to solve here pooling, which is the the management of limited resources kept at the ready for any ad-hoc requests for usage.

As explained in my original post on connecting Python with Elixir, there are some data translation issues that we will have to deal with when interfacing between the two languages.

Thankfully, the Erlport documentation kindly provides a full table of the data type mappings, which we can now use to make our lives easier.

While developing PillowSkin, I have become used to the habit of creating small releases. This resulted in me always having to repetitively write the commands git checkout master, then git merge develop, then git tag... It does get old after a while when your total release count gets into the hundreds (PillowSkin is at ~180 versions at this point in writing). However, with the power of Python scripting, we can do a little bit of scripting to save us countless cumulative hours of googling for the right commands to type. This post details the creation of a simple CLI tool to automate release building using Invoke, a Python task runner, which I explain in my main post here

Adding Python into your Elixir web application is a very tantalizing proposition. Elixir isn't that great at crunching numbers, but by leveraging the data science powers of Python, we can add in some machine learning magic into our applications.