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Scaling Down (Running Large Sites Locally)

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Scaling Down (Running Large Sites Locally)

A talk I gave at PyCon AU 2017.

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Transcript

  1. Andrew Godwin

  2. Hi, I’m Andrew Godwin

  3. 2013

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  6. 2017

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  8. ~150 Docker containers

  9. ~24GB of RAM

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  11. docker-compose

  12. docker-compose

  13. bay

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  17. Containers & Links

  18. Django Core MySQL Payments Audit MySQL Redis

  19. Django Core MySQL Payments Audit MySQL Redis

  20. Django Core MySQL Payments Audit MySQL Redis

  21. Django Core MySQL Redis “tiny”

  22. Did it boot yet?

  23. Docker containers run only one thing

  24. None
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  27. What if you don’t have a custom init?

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  29. Rebuilding is Bad

  30. Rebuilding core is about 10 mins

  31. Mounts (“devmodes”) Core mount ➜ Library mount ➜

  32. None

  33. Our dependencies change every few hours

  34. Docker images are portable

  35. Pull rather than build

  36. None

  37. What’s Next?

  38. Automated image building

  39. Running images remotely

  40. Running whole stacks remotely

  41. Trying not to reinvent the wheel

  42. github.com/eventbrite/bay

  43. Thanks. github.com/eventbrite/bay