PyCon 2011: Disqus: Serving 400 million people with Python

Slides are on slideshare - http://www.slideshare.net/zeeg/pycon-2011-scaling-disqus-725...

It's been said numerous times before, but it can't be stressed enough - Disqus' lightweight stack, and by-the-book development and deployment methods never cease to amaze.

Ladies and gentlemen, this is how it's done.

Disqus talked last year at DjangoCon also.

Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/zeeg/djangocon-2010-scaling-disqus

Video: http://djangocon.blip.tv/file/4135225/

And the HN discussion item: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2249526

I recently worked on a system where the CI (pre-commit in teamcity) took half an hour with occasional "random" failures. It's a nightmare. I can only imagine how hard on them it is to be in this situation and still release 3-7 times a day.

Worth having in your Python Webapps Toolkit: uWSGI, Celery, Graphite...although not in this video but tornado & fabric seem great tools also. I'm discovering new python packages everyday. It's just awesome. :)

Full details (link to slides as well) can be see on Lanyrd: http://lanyrd.com/2011/pycon-us/sckrw/#link-chfc

Before deciding a framework., Check weather it is active or not http://wiki.python.org/moin/WebFrameworks