Adventures in AsyncIO: Moxie
This week, I started work on something I'm calling moxie. Due to wanting to use my aiodocker bindings on the backend, I decided to implement it in 100% AsyncIO Python 3.4. What pushed me over the edge was finding the aiopg driver (postgres asyncio bindings), with very (let me stress - very) immature SQLAlchemy support. Unfortunately, no web frameworks support asyncio as a first-class member of the framework, so I was forced into writing a microframework. The resulting "app" looks pretty not bad, and likely easy to switch if Flask ever gets support for asyncio. One neat side-effect was that the framework can support stuff like websockets as a first-class element of the framework, just like GET requests. Moxie will be a tool to run periodic long-running jobs in a sane way using docker.io. More soon!