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
   

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2. /dev/fort
   Because normal holidays just don't have enough work in them.
   Picture: Matt Ogle
   

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5. OCRd, Scanned, Typewritten
   

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6. It's text. It should be diffable.
   

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7. Text files. They're webscale.
   

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8. Everything in one directory.
   

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9. Text files are "indexed" into Redis
   

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10. Our site is embarassingly cacheable.
    Scott Beale / Laughing Squid
    

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11. Two Redis databases - index into one
    while we serve from the other
    

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12. Varnish and CloudFront to make the
    server a lot happier
    

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13. Django
    Redis (redis-py)
    Xapian
    

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14. Django
    Redis (redis-py)
    Xapian
    Not Too Much JavaScript
    

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15. Django
    Redis (redis-py)
    Xapian
    Not Too Much JavaScript
    A little bit of evil
    

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17. Lessons
    

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18. Build sites without user state
    That pesky login system just gets in the way.
    

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19. Only use old content
    The further before the UNIX epoch the better.
    

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20. Coal fires can be quite smoky
    Open some windows, or just run away
    

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21. Hollywood is often wrong
    Don't trust their dramatisation of history.
    

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22. Fin.
    Hold 1 on that next talk, Aquarius.
    

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