bouncer is an authorization library that restricts user access to resources. All the permissions are defined in a single location.
"migrations should happen naturally"
`monarch` is a mongo utility belt that helps developers and admins deal with common admin use-cases. The main use-case that this library was built for was migrations but it does a bunch or other useful things like makes it easy to backup, restore, and copy environments between one another.
It has been very helpful for our teams -- and hopefully you guys can find it useful as well.
Yeah Memory Issues!!
Memory Issues happen to the best of us. `memory_utils` will give you simple tools to quickly isolate the cuplrit, and ideally, warn you before you run into issues.
From my experience, there is no silver-bullet in dealing with memory issues. You just have to roll up your sleeve and get dirty with print statements. In our team's recent fight with a memory issue, we created memory_utils and we wanted to share.
`memory_utils` deals primarily with RSS memory (Resident Set Size). The most important memory concept to understand when dealing with memory constrained systems: RSS, the resident set size, is the portion of a process's memory that is held in RAM. The rest of the memory exists in the swap of the file system.
There are two types of developers in this world: those who love state machines and those who will eventually.
I fall in the first camp. I think it is really important to have a declarative way to define the states of an object. That’s why I developed `state_machine`.
At ZEFR we used Pivotal Tracker to help us with our Agile workflow. Its a great tool, but we created a couple of command-line utilities that help us with our process. We have found these to be real time-savers and helped up tighten up our process.
We have collected these utils into a python package pivotal_tools.