[IPython-dev] Database-backed persistence for IPython Notebooks

[Matthias BUSSONNIER]

Hi Scott, 


Le 18 déc. 2014 à 19:19, ssanderson a écrit :

> Hi All,
> 
> I want to announce a new open source project, "pgcontents", that's in
> development at  Quantopian <http://www.quantopian.com>   for use in our
> hosted research environment.
> 
> pgcontents is a PostgreSQL-backed implementation of IPython's  Contents API
> <https://github.com/ipython/ipython/wiki/IPEP-27:-Contents-Service>  .  This
> means that it provides an alternative storage backend for the files managed
> by IPython.  The immediate goal is to use this to build a service that can
> host notebooks without having to worry about the various pitfalls of
> file-based storage in the cloud, but it also opens the door to more
> sophisticated schemes for checkpointing and sharing notebooks than what's
> currently easy or possible with the default manager.


Thanks a lot for that, really appreciate ! it is really great. 
This is typically the kind of things that will also work for non-python notebook (so II cc the jupyter ml) 
And that help us clean our codebase. 




> You can find the source and installation instructions for pgcontents at
> https://github.com/quantopian/pgcontents.  It's currently under heavy
> development, but the version on PyPI is a serviceable (if probably less
> efficient than it could be) drop-in replacement for the default manager.
> 
> Thanks,
> -Scott
> 

Thanks !
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M