Circus, process and socket manager

= introduction =

Built with zmq, Circus (http://circus.io) is a process and socket manager we’re writing at Mozilla Services.

It has many features like a web interface with a live stream of process/socket stats, a command line tool to drive the system. etc.

This talk will present the architecture of the tool, its uses cases at Mozilla, and what we’re planning next.

= agenda =

• mozilla use case
• overview of existing tools
• features we wanted to have
• technical choices: psutil, zmq, socket.io, bottle, gevent
• circusd, circusctl, circus-top
• config files
• detailed architecture and the Chaussette WSGI app
• plugins
• benchmarks
• what’s next

NB this talk was given at Pycon Ireland - slides : http://blog.ziade.org/slides/pyconireland2012/

The Europython version will be longer with more information and new things