Making DISQUS realtime

A session at EuroPython 2012

Currently in development is the DISQUS realtime service. This talk will detail what it took to add real time to a truly “web scale” django app.

This will include:

Numbers! how much concurrency and msg/s we are supporting with realtime
Overview of the architecture (redis + gevent + flask) and why those choices were made
How we baked high availability into the application, not just the infrastructure
Overview of the hardware involved
Lessons learned (what broke hard, what worked awesome)

I hate long talks and love open spaces. Also, I’m not the world’s leading expert in real time anything. So I’m planning on making this a 20-30 minute talk, and then converting it to an open space for 20-30 minutes which I will lead. The goal is to get a good conversation going around the topics I will have presented. So I’d prefer a 45-60 minute slot.

Suggested audience experience:

Medium/Advanced level experience
Familiarity with Flask, Gevent/Eventlet would be really good.

About the speaker

This person is speaking at this event.

Adam Hitchcock

Software Engineer, DISQUS

Currently a software engineer at DISQUS working on our realtime delivery of content. Previously I worked at Skype in the Skype Labs and Core Web Services groups where I did top secret things. I tend to hate long presentations so you will often find me trying to start open space style discussions.