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Django: From Runserver to Reddit Hugs

Last month, I presented High Performance Django: From Runserver to Reddit Hugs at DjangoCon US in Portland. My assertion was …

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Peter Baumgartner October 17, 2024

High Performance Django: Shipped

I’m excited to announce that our book, High Performance Django is officially complete. You can buy a copy at highperformancedjango.com …

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Peter Baumgartner October 17, 2024

High Performance Django Kickstarter Project

I'm really excited to (finally) announce that we are writing a book! We've been working with Django professionally for a …

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Peter Baumgartner October 17, 2024

Lessons Learned Architecting Realtime Applications

Building realtime applications is a big change from how we’ve built websites in the past. Typically, realtime websites require each …

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Peter Baumgartner October 17, 2024

2013 Year in Review

2013 was an amazing roller coaster year at Lincoln Loop. This is a long post, so I’ll skip the intro …

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Peter Baumgartner October 17, 2024

Introducing Salmon

Over the years, I’ve used a lot of server monitoring systems. Big enterprisey ones like Zabbix, Zenoss, and Hyperic, smaller …

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Peter Baumgartner October 17, 2024

Goodbye Trailmapping

Trailmapping.com was a fun experiment with rapid development in Django I released almost 5 years ago now(!). I spoke about …

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Peter Baumgartner October 17, 2024

Lincoln Loop Retreat 2013

Over the last couple months we’ve been busy tying up loose ends and preparing for our first “official” company-wide retreat. …

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Peter Baumgartner October 17, 2024

Django Settings Parity: You're Doing It Wrong

A common paradigm in Django is to create different settings files for different environments (local, production, staging, etc.). Everyone has …

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Peter Baumgartner October 17, 2024

2012 Year in Review

2012 was another amazing year at Lincoln Loop. I’m incredibly proud of the work we accomplished and the growth and …

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Peter Baumgartner October 17, 2024