Last month, I presented
High Performance Django: From Runserver to Reddit Hugs
at DjangoCon US in Portland. My assertion was that Django, left to its own devices, does not scale. With the right supporting servers, however, it can scale fantastically. …
I’m excited to announce that our book, High Performance Django is officially complete. You can buy a copy at
highperformancedjango.com
now.
Thank You
Writing the book was hard work and there were definitely times where the challenge felt insurmountable. I …
I'm really excited to (finally) announce that we are writing a book! We've been working with Django professionally for a long time (over 7 years now). During that time, we've learned
a lot
about how to use the framework to …
Grunt
is a powerful task runner with an amazing assortment of plugins. It’s not limited to the frontend, but there are many frontend-oriented plugins that you can take advantage of to combine and minify your static media, compile sass and …
For a while now we’ve sent out a regular newsletter called the
Django Round-Up
, a collection of recent links, packages, and jobs in the Django community, curated by
Pete Baumgartner
. It’s a great resource for keeping up with …
At Lincoln Loop, we have been building large web applications using Django since 2007. Recently, however, we have recently started using Go as a critical network component of
Botbot.me
.
Reading others’ successes stories about replacing some existing components of …
Over the years, I’ve used a lot of server monitoring systems. Big enterprisey ones like Zabbix, Zenoss, and Hyperic, smaller ones like munin and monit, stuff in the middle like Graphite, and hosted solutions like New Relic. Throughout the search, …
A common paradigm in Django is to create different settings files for different environments (local, production, staging, etc.). Everyone has their own opinion on how to set these up (see
ours here
), that’s not what this post is about. …
If you’ve never heard of
Selenium
, put simply, it’s a tool that allows you to create tests that are run in the browser and interact with your UI in the same way as if you were manually testing your …
Part 1
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Part 3
A while ago, I wrote a couple of blog entries about load testing with JMeter. I promised a third entry covering how to use JMeter to replay Apache logs and roughly recreate …