Spacelog (part one)

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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
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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
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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.