My half of a presentation that James Aylett and I gave at Oxford Geek Nights (early on in 2011).
SpacelogJames Aylett & Andrew GodwinOxford Geek Night 20
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/dev/fortBecause normal holidays just don't have enough work in them.Picture: Matt Ogle
OCRd, Scanned, Typewritten
It's text. It should be diffable.
Text files. They're webscale.
Everything in one directory.
Text files are "indexed" into Redis
Our site is embarassingly cacheable.Scott Beale / Laughing Squid
Two Redis databases - index into onewhile we serve from the other
Varnish and CloudFront to make theserver a lot happier
DjangoRedis (redis-py)Xapian
DjangoRedis (redis-py)XapianNot Too Much JavaScript
DjangoRedis (redis-py)XapianNot Too Much JavaScriptA little bit of evil
Lessons
Build sites without user stateThat pesky login system just gets in the way.
Only use old contentThe further before the UNIX epoch the better.
Coal fires can be quite smokyOpen some windows, or just run away
Hollywood is often wrongDon't trust their dramatisation of history.
Fin.Hold 1 on that next talk, Aquarius.