All Posts by Peter Baumgartner

Peter is the founder of Lincoln Loop, having built it up from a small freelance operation in 2007 to what it is today. He is constantly learning and is well-versed in many technical disciplines including devops, scaling, back-end, and front-end development. Peter is a frequent speaker at DjangoCon and has ...

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Feb 23, 2016

The Trouble with Thumbnails: Part 1

Images are everywhere on the web. Whether you're building a simple blog, a CMS, or a true web application, chances are good that you'll need to deal with images. Editors, authors, users ...

Nov 05, 2015

Our Failed Kickstarter Was Really a Success

Our Kickstarter campaign for a companion video series to our book High Performance Django ended today just shy of its target. We consider it a great success! That's right... a success. When ...

Jul 22, 2015

The uWSGI Swiss Army Knife

uWSGI is one of those interesting projects that keeps adding features with every new release without becoming totally bloated, slow, and/or unstable. In this post, we'll look at some of its ...

Jun 12, 2015

Speeding Up NPM Installs

I've been working on improving our deployment processes as part of the High Performance Django Infrastructure project we're building out. One consistent pain point is our front-end build system, and particularly, npm ...

May 22, 2015

Fast Immutable Python Deployments

Alternate title: Pip 7 is Awesome, Here's Why A typical Python deployment looks like this: Pave the server, setting up a virtualenv and installing any pre-requisites necessary to build/install the Python ...