GSoC 2014: Monkey Project

I applied for GSoC this year also and fortunately the folks at monkey-project liked my proposal. My original proposal was to work on a dashboard for Raspberry Pi using the monkey webserver and the duda i/o framework built over it, however my mentors asked me whether I would be interested in working with them on another project. I was more than happy to say yes to them as this represented a more challenging project which I must admit, a little intimidating as I haven’t had much experience in system programming apart from making some system calls and the server client programs you write in your computer networks course.

The project I will be working on involves creating a Lua plugin for the monkey http server and also a memcached plugin for monkey-project.

Lua is an embeddable scripting language that can be used to add some scripting capabilities to the monkey server. In addition to the usual dynamic content creation, the plugin should be also able to do some administrative tasks with the monkey server and also collect statistics on the various api calls.The second part of the project will be to integrate this functionality into duda as a duda package and design a API for it.

The second project to be completed is developing a memcached plugin for monkey that can can interface application with the popular distributed in memory key value store database.