Spacelog (part one)

My half of a presentation that James Aylett and I gave at Oxford Geek Nights (early on in 2011).

Transcript

1. Spacelog James Aylett & Andrew Godwin Oxford Geek Night 20
2. /dev/fort Because normal holidays just don't have enough work in them. Picture: Matt Ogle
5. OCRd, Scanned, Typewritten
6. It's text. It should be diffable.
7. Text files. They're webscale.
8. Everything in one directory.
9. Text files are "indexed" into Redis
10. Our site is embarassingly cacheable. Scott Beale / Laughing Squid
11. Two Redis databases - index into one while we serve from the other
12. Varnish and CloudFront to make the server a lot happier
13. Django Redis (redis-py) Xapian
14. Django Redis (redis-py) Xapian Not Too Much JavaScript
15. Django Redis (redis-py) Xapian Not Too Much JavaScript A little bit of evil
17. Lessons
18. Build sites without user state That pesky login system just gets in the way.
19. Only use old content The further before the UNIX epoch the better.
20. Coal fires can be quite smoky Open some windows, or just run away
21. Hollywood is often wrong Don't trust their dramatisation of history.
22. Fin. Hold 1 on that next talk, Aquarius.