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NU.nl performance and our journey in the Django realm

These are the slides of my talk at the Django meetup hosted by Byte

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  1. [email protected] NU.nl performance and our journey in the Django realm

    Besma Mcharek-Boussif

  2. [email protected] Whoami @B35m4

  3. [email protected] Who are we? • The biggest Dutch news platform

    – +1B pageviews

  4. [email protected] Our platforms • Web – Desktop and mobile •

    Mobile – tablets, phones and smart watches

  5. [email protected] Development teams • Mobile team – Android – iOs

    • Web/ApI and CMS team

  6. [email protected] Development process • DeVops mind set team • Tools

    – Development: Jira, Bamboo, Hipchat – Monitoring: GA, New Relic

  7. [email protected] How do we work • Work within layers, depending

    on the requirements

  8. [email protected] The nu.nl ecosystem

  9. [email protected] Web/Api team focus

  10. [email protected] Our output as Web/API team • Serving static pages

    • Serve Push Notification for big news • Serve the raw data

  11. [email protected] Microservices • Projects that serve a single purpose •

    Together projects create a microsystem that fits within the Sanoma ecosystem

  12. [email protected] Evolution the nu.nl stack • Time line – Past

    – Current – Future...

  13. [email protected] Past ecosystem • The entire stack used to be

    written in php • Development and maintenance by external party

  14. [email protected] Current ecosystem • Most of the stack in Django

    • Development and maintenance by our team

  15. [email protected] Near future ecosystem • All of the stack in

    Django • Development and maintenance by our team

  16. [email protected] Block structure • Business and editors decide on the

    layout • Editors supply the blocks with content • Layout is served to FE and mobile

  17. [email protected] Challenges in the current setup Scale speed API errors

  18. [email protected] How do we deal with these challenges in general?

    • Django security solutions • DRF as dataprovider • Caching • Rigorous testing

  19. [email protected] Performance sprint

  20. [email protected] How? Webservers • Software updated and servers rebooted •

    Updated nu.nl stack to python 2.7 • Updated nu.nl stack from Apache to nginx • Disabled django.views.static.serve • Used Serpy as serializer

  21. API server performance Before

  22. API server performance After

  23. [email protected] Future challenges Personalization

  24. [email protected] Sanoma account

  25. [email protected] Personalized nu.nl

  26. [email protected] Other performance challenges • Pages are no longer static

    • API: serving blocks instead of layouts to mobile applications

  27. [email protected] Challenges ahead

  28. [email protected] Questions