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Course: Twisted Training

Dates for Open Courses

Location	Course	Date	Registration
Leipzig	Twisted Training	09.09.-11.09.2013	PDF

Also available as in-house course.

Intended audience

This tutorial is intended for programmers with at least some Python experience who want to use the Twisted framework. It is suitable for people trying to start new Twisted projects, are looking to integrate Twisted with an existing non-Twisted project, or who have inherited an existing Twisted project.

Course content

Many components of the course can be left out or adjusted to suit your specific needs.

Core course

Introduction (40 min)
- Event loops (10 min)
- Environment setup (25 min)
  
  Dependencies and required software
- Where to get help (10 min)
  
  Documentation
  
  Support channels: IRC, mailing list...
Protocols, factories and endpoints (40 min)
- Introduction (5 min)
- Building a simple protocol (15 min)
- Client and server factories (5 min)
- Serving your protocol: (5 min)
  
  reactor.listen/connect
  
  endpoints
- Existing and composable protocols (10 min)
Deferreds (60 min)
- Introduction (10 min)
- Exercises (30 min)
- @inlineCallbacks (20 min)

Important toplevel packages

Twisted Web (90 min)
- Servers (with exercises) (60 min)
  
  Resource traversal
- Clients (exercises based on previous servers) (60 min)
Twisted Cred: pluggable authentication (45 min)
- Overview
- Exercises

Other toplevel packages and third party packages

twisted.words: Chat protocols & IRC support
- IRC clients
  
  A simple bot (30 min)
  
  Adding more advanced behavior (e.g. webhooks) (45 min)
- Building an IRC server (30 min)
- Wokkel (Friend fork with advanced Jabber/XMPP support) (30 min)
twisted.news: NTTP support (30 minutes)
twisted.conch: SSH support (timing depends on level of detail and which components)
Database access
- twisted.enterprise + txpostgres (60 min)
- txredis, paisley (couchdb), telephus (cassandra) (each 60 min individually)
- Axiom (60 min)
twisted.spread: distributable computing (60 min)
twisted.names: DNS servers and clients (30 min)
Twisted Community Code (tx) (length depends on the package)
scrapy: advanced scraping architecture built on Twisted (120 min)

Advanced topics

Dealing with legacy/synchronous code (1h 45 min)
- WSGI app case study: django-packages (60 minutes)
- Threads: deferToThread(Pool), blockingCallFromThread (45 minutes)
Dealing with CPU-bound problems
- Introduction (15 min)
- Explicit cooperative multitasking (45 min)
- Threads (reference; see previous mention of threads) (30 min)
- Multiprocessing options and Ampoule (60 min)
Application framework (1h 30 min)
- Services and applications (15 min)
- twistd: running servers & daemonization (30 min)
- Twisted's plugin system (15 min)
- Writing your own twisted plugins (30 min)
Advanced application concepts (1h 30 min)
- Process monitoring: daemontools, upstart, systemd, etc. (30 min)
- Live server monitoring and maintenance with manhole (60 min)
Contributing to Twisted (1h 30min)
- Issue tracker (30 min)
- Setting up the environment (45 min)
- Review process (15 min)

In addition to the previous topics, the following topics are touched on as needed:

Test Driven Twisted: twisted.trial (tutorial is TDD where sensible)
twisted.python: useful random python utilities
- FilePath: like paths but better
- Logging

Course Duration

3 days

Course Material

Every participant receives comprehensive printed materials that cover the whole course content as well as a CD with source code and used software.

Costs

See prices.

Trainer

Laurens Van Houtven has extensive programming and entrepeneurial experience. He is a Twisted committer, has built two business on top of Twisted, and is a member of the Python Software Foundation.