Nowadays, it’s common to deploy multiple application servers, but it poses a very common problem; How are these application servers going to share the media files contributed by the users?
Cloud providers like Google, Rackspace or Amazon Web Services solve …
This post could have been titled, “How We Use OpenPGP to Protect Our Secrets.” All the use cases illustrated below use a tool called GnuPG to take care of the crypto details for us. GnuPG is a complete and free …
The most famous quote to characterize python speed is:
It is fast enough
I have used this quote many times, and I still believe that it applies to most circumstances if you throw enough hardware at the problem.
Despite Python …
Building a cluster in the cloud is becoming a mundane step that you have to do several times during the life cycle of a project. There are multiple driving forces behind this fact:
Initial set up
Redundancy
Setting up an …
Let’s Encrypt is a new certificate authority. It is a huge improvement over the manual complex process of acquiring and deploying an HTTPS server. The process is now:
Free
Automatic (no more login to sites, filling forms, concatenating certificates)
This …
At Pycon in Montreal few weeks ago I attended a talk that blew my mind away and got me thinking: Python concurrency from the Ground Up: LIVE! by David Beazley. The video is available on YouTube.
The gist of the …
Last week Vitaly and I migrated BotBot.me to new servers and also launched a redesign of the user account section. You can now support us by becoming a subscriber for $3/month and even log personal channels for $2/month. If you …
In the past month we worked to scale up botbot.me. Every few days the bot would get stuck in a deadlock situation that caused outage of the logging service. I had some time in front of me that I decided …
Varnish Saint Mode is a lesser known gem inside varnish that lets you serve stale content from cache, even when your backend servers are unavailable.
This article explains how to configure varnish to take advantage of this feature. If you …
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 their …
