Serving Static Files with uWSGI
As noted in a previous post, uWSGI is a Swiss Army knife of functionality. One of its features is a built-in static file server.
When to Use uWSGI for Serving Static Files
While it may …
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, etc. expect to be able to upload images …
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 we started the campaign, our internal goal was …
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 lesser used features and how you might use them …
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 installs. For a number of reasons, instead of …
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 requirements (compiler, development headers, etc.).
To update to a …
Part of my job at Lincoln Loop is to explore new technologies and make sure that, as a company, we stay current. I’ve been playing around with Docker for a while, but recently decided to redeploy some of our production …
One of the most common requests we’ve heard since releasing our book, High Performance Django is: “Do you have more code/configuration examples?” It’s a pretty loaded question because the book covers everything from Python code to deploying and configuring servers. …
With the launch of our book, High Performance Django, we’ve received a number of inquiries from people asking for advice, for which the answers are too specific to their application to give good general advice, and too short to sign …
Do you manage a website? Does it have a login form? Can somebody brute force attack it with every common username/password combination until they find one that works?
For many small web applications, the answer to all of the above …
