Sessions at DjangoCon Europe 2011 about Scaling with write-up

Monday 6th June 2011

• Large Django sites at Mozilla

  The Mozilla Addons site has traffic of over 150 million requests per month and 500 million API calls a day. This talk covers how the site was converted from PHP to Django and all the fun that entailed.

  I'll also highlight other Mozilla Django projects and other open source projects from Mozilla.

  • Django
  • Mozilla
  • Scaling

  At 11:30am to 12:15pm, Monday 6th June

  Coverage video write-up

Tuesday 7th June 2011

• Bitbucket - Lessons learned

  Doing a website in Django is easy, but how about building a DVCS hosting site with it? Django fits a wide variety of purposes, and was molded to suit Bitbucket's purpose while remaining (somewhat) idiomatic. This talk is about the lessons we learned in going from a few hundred users, to now over 100.000 active ones, being acquired, introducing non-Pythonistas to Django, and having to maintain and develop everything meanwhile.

  • Bitbucket
  • Django
  • DVCS
  • Scaling

  At 10:30am to 11:15am, Tuesday 7th June

  Coverage video slide deck write-up

Wednesday 8th June 2011

• Deploying, At An Unusual Scale

  As a Python hosting startup, ep.io sees a lot of Django. Andrew will take you through the various parts of the ep.io stack - from the custom load balancer, to the redis proxy, to how we run nginx and gunicorn, and show you some of our code, while he points out some of the trickier parts of maintaining hundreds of Django installations on just a few machines.

  • Deployment
  • Django
  • Gunicorn
  • Redis
  • Scaling

  At 1:30pm to 2:15pm, Wednesday 8th June

  Coverage write-up video