Posts for September, 2010
Class-based Views with Django-Baseviews
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Django
on September 28, 2010
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I've always loved the concept of class-based views because views often become repetitive. There are a lot of common operations in a view that work best when they are defined once and reused. Class inheritance, in my opinion, is the best way to keep views DRY and allow you to ...
Continue readingDjango on uWSGI and Nginx
I recently moved Pegasus News from Perlbal, Lighttpd, and Apache to Nginx and uWSGI. We balance the traffic between 3 physical servers, and the systems were struggling under the load even after weeks of Apache conf tweaking. We began having issues with excessively slow page loads, request timeouts, and intermittent ...
Continue readingBrandon Konkle
I've been creating websites for over 10 years, and I've been using Django since early 2008. I focus on high quality, well-tested, maintainable code and reliable high-performance deployments. Web development is something that I am very excited about, and I love finding elegant and innovative ways to push web applications further.