Lego Style Software Design

My company recently got the chance to work on a very interesting project (which unfortunately I can't divulge at the moment).  What made the project fun to work on, aside from the product level challenges, was the fact that we were given much more architectural flexibility than usual.

Amongst the work emerged the following:

Python Functional Tools

I got the chance to come by a pretty cool project recently: Python Moka.  It consists of functional programming friendly implementations of standard Python dictionary and list classes.  Then it struck me:  wouldn't be nice to have Erlang-ish pattern matching functionality to Python?

So I crafted a small Python package scratching an itch I have had for way too long:  function dispatching based on pattern matching.  For those interested, here are the relevant links:

• Project on Github
• Main page on Systemical

Feedback welcome :)

EC2 architecture notes

I've updated the home page of Systemical: you'll find a bunch of useful links to documents:

• An EC2 architecture
• Distributed Leader Election Protocol
• Data-Flow based EC2 architecture

Enjoy :)