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History And Future
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History
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The first version of Mitogen was written in late 2006 for use in an
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infrastructure management program, however at the time I lacked the pragmatism
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necessary for pushing my little design from concept to finished implementation.
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I tired of it when no way could be found to unify every communication style
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(*blocking execute function, asynchronous execute function, proxy
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slave-of-slave context*) into one neat abstraction. That unification never
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happened, but I'm no longer worried by it.
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Every few years I would pick through the source code, especially after periods
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of commercial work involving some contemporary infrastructure management
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systems, none of which had nearly as neat an approach to running Python code
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remotely, and suffered from shockingly beginner-level bugs such as failing to
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report SSH diagnostic messages.
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And every few years I'd put that code down again, especially since moving to an
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OS X laptop where :py:func:`select.poll` was not available, the struggle to get
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back on top seemed more hassle than it was worth.
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That changed in 2016 during a quiet evening at home with a clear head and
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nothing better to do, after a full day of exposure to Ansible's intensely
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unbearable tendency to make running a 50 line Python script across a 1Gbit/sec
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LAN feel like I were configuring a host on Mars. Poking through Ansible, I was
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shocked to discover it writing temporary files everywhere, and uploading a
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56KiB zip file apparently for every playbook step.
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.. figure:: _static/wtf.gif
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All contemporary Devops tooling
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Searching around for something to play with, I came across my forgotten project
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directory and somehow in a few hours managed to squash most of the race
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conditions and logic bugs that were preventing reliable operation, write the IO
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and log forwarders, rewrite the module importer, move from
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:py:func:`select.poll` to :py:func:`select.select`, and even refactor the
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special cases out of the main loop.
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So there you have it. As of writing :py:mod:`mitogen.core` consists of 681
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source lines, and those 681 lines have taken over a decade to write. I have
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long had a preference for avoiding infrastructure work commercially, not least
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for the inescapable depression induced by considering the wasted effort across
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the world caused by universally horrific tooling. This is my small contribution
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to a solution, I hope you find it useful.
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Future
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######
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`View the issue list on GitHub`_
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.. _View the issue list on GitHub: https://github.com/dw/mitogen/issues?q=is%3Aopen%20is%3Aissue%20-label%3Abug
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