Jason Zylks

An introduction to writing decorators, with an example of how they can be used to handle common authentication and authorization actions for a set of web services.

A look at how to get started with MongoDB using Python. The talk will cover basic concepts, a brief walkthrough of some more advanced features, and how Texas A&M is using MongoDB and Python to solve some large data problems.

Message queues provide a reliable, language agnostic method for sharing data between processes for distributed processing, and to manage work flows. This talk will examine the role of message queues in a redesign of the provisioning process for Texas A[HTML REMOVED] University's enterprise directory.