A Python Takeover
summary
SourceForge moves from PHP to Python, proving it by shipping Phosphorus in two months and then rewriting the site as Allura; choices: Django for the prototype, then a heavily modified TurboGears front end with mod_wsgi and MongoDB for production; early load tests show 10,000 reads/sec on a laptop, but production stalls due to saturating the network with giant project records, fixed by removed 4MB release blobs and replacing memcache pickling with local caching and record redesign.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Intro
- 2:30Choosing a language
- 3:40Django
- 7:05sourceforge
- 11:05Search
- 11:25Usability
- 13:50Performance
- 15:25Launch
- 21:39Allura
- 23:05The Platform
- 25:11A New Direction
- 27:04TurboGears
- 30:48Porting to Pyramid
- 32:48Question
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