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 …
This post was created as a collaboration between Lincoln Loop and Maciej Fijalkowski from baroquesoftware.com.
In the space of web architecture, the prevalent belief states that “database based applications are I/O bound”. While this might have been true in the …
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 …
The following is the second installment of our Loop Letters series, an interview with Tracy Osborn.
Tracy is the author of Hello Web App, a book to help designers and non-programmers get up and running with Python and Django. Tracy …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Front-end tools like Grunt and Gulp are becoming very widespread, and there’s good reason for it. The front-end code is no longer static, CSS pre-processors are the norm, and JavaScript modules such as Require, Browserify or even coffeescript are also …
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. …
