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Building scalable web applications may seem like a distant problem, but the problem is not thinking about it before it's too late. This talk will focus on designing a scalable web application before it needs to be (and avoiding the premature optimization dilemma). It will cover topics such as efficient usage of your database, appropriate caching (and invalidation!), and what the speaker considers as best practices.

GeoDjango is the "world-class geographic web framework" everyone has probably heard of. The purpose of this talk, targeted at people familiar with Django itself, is to introduce in more details the capabilities of this framework.

After learning the basics of Geographic Information Systems, we will see:

• how to get started with a GeoDjango installation,
• how to import, store and query spatial data,
• how to geo-enable your forms to allow user-generated spatial data,
• how to serialize and display your data using the different formats and mapping frameworks such as OpenLayers and Polymaps.

During this talk we will be building a simple GeoDjango application to illustrate the different concepts introduced.

Django benefits from a thriving third-party ecosystem. This talk will take a deep look at three of the components I have found most useful in my own projects: Haystack for full-text search, Celery for offline processing and Fabric for automated deployments. I'll discuss how we use them for Lanyrd.com, and demonstrate why they deserve a permanent place in your toolbox.