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 …
An important part of the process process of learning a new language is to learn the ecosystem that helps you to write better code. In a previous article I covered
gdb integration with Go
.
Next on my list is …
I spent the vast majority of my time in the last 4 years writing, reading and debugging Python or JavaScript code. The process of learning Go was like a beautiful hike in the mountains with a small rock in my …
When you develop a sizable content heavy web site you quickly learn, hopefully not the hard way, that caching is a very important piece of your infrastructure. The database servers are the typical bottleneck in high volume website.
Common wisdom …
A few weeks ago Django’s team
revealed a data leakage bug in the admin application
that affects an extremely interesting and undocumented feature. A user that has access to a
change_list
page of an object in the admin interface can …
Fellow Lincoln Looper, Martin Mahner, posted an excellent write up on
how to use proxy models to separate staff and user accounts in Django’s admin
. We frequently have a need for this in client projects, but people don’t often …
Inspired by Eric Florenzano’s talk,
Using Django in Non-Standard Ways
(
slides in
) at DjangoCon and the announcement of Tornado (
tornadoweb.org
), I decided to try building a small application using the Django Form library and Django …