Database madness with mongoengine and SQLAchemy
Yesterday I gave a presentation in the Python Ireland October meeting about some work we are doing with mongoengine and SQLAchemy and how we are managing three databases (MS SQL server, MySQL and MongoDB) on an online football management game we are working on. So, here are the slides, so feel free to make comments, ask questions and even criticize them! You can also download the presentation on PDF here. PD: When I talk about football game, I’m referring to soccer.
ORMs and threads
Do you remember the post from Joel Spolsky about leaking abstractions? It’s the kind of idea that, the first time I read, about it, was intrigued, but after some time, I began to see it on every place. There are from time to time some problems on my Python code (as well as in other high-level languages) that I am really glad to be able to have an idea of the underlaying low level C, or I will be struggling with some very weird, confusing problems. I have enough confusing and weird problems… Read More
Wrong Side of Memphis 