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Spacelog James Aylett & Andrew Godwin Oxford Geek Night 20

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

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OCRd, Scanned, Typewritten

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It's text. It should be diffable.

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Text files. They're webscale.

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Everything in one directory.

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Text files are "indexed" into Redis

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Our site is embarassingly cacheable. Scott Beale / Laughing Squid

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

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Varnish and CloudFront to make the server a lot happier

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Django Redis (redis-py) Xapian

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

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

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Lessons

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

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

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

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

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Fin. Hold 1 on that next talk, Aquarius.