Cory Benfield

Cory is a Software Engineer at Metaswitch Networks. He's an active Python open source developer: outside of Project Calico, he's a core developer in Python's requests library, Python's urllib3 library, and a number of others. He is also the maintainer of hyper, an open-source Python HTTP/2 stack. He doesn't currently own any cats, though he loves them from a distance.

The Sharp Edges of Gevent

Technical / By Cory Benfield / 2015-06-25 2015-10-01

Author’s note: This is a big, gnarly, technical post. I’m not apologising, because I love nothing more than a technical deep dive, but this may not be for you. At …

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Calico Introduction at FOSDEM

Event / Meetup / By Cory Benfield / 2015-03-26 2015-10-01

At the end of January I took a quick train across to Belgium in order to attend FOSDEM 2015. While I was there I had the pleasure of getting to …

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Obtaining External Connectivity in OpenStack

Technical, Virtual Machines / By Cory Benfield / 2015-01-23 2015-10-01

So you’ve pulled the trigger and obtained some computing resource on your cloud platform of choice. It’s super easy to get your frontend web servers to talk to your database …

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Exploring Juju with Project Calico

1 Comment / Technical, Virtual Machines / By Cory Benfield / 2014-12-16 2015-10-01

Installing OpenStack is non-trivial. You need to install a large number of packages across a number of machines, get all the configuration synchronized so that all those components can talk to …

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