Moonshining: Making WSGI for Fun and Profit

Training offered at the 2010 Plone Symposium East, Wednesday, 26 May 2010, at the PSU College of Business, State College, PA.

Abstract

The Python web development world has adopted on WSGI as an interoperability standard for Python web servers, applications, and middleware components. This tutorial examines that specification in deatil, and shows practial examples of using WSGI to improve development productivity, integrate applications, and solve various deployment problems.

Topics

• PEP 333: the WSGI spec
• Using "stock" WSGI tools
  • paster
  • mod_wsgi
• Extending the WSGI application
• middleware
• paste templates
• paster configuration
• Practical applications
• Debugging errors with WSGI
• Profiling / instrumenting a WSGI application
• Unified authentication via repoze.who
• Unified skinning via Deliverance

Duration

One day.

Cost

$150 per student. Includes a copy of the 'repoze.bfg' book.