All articles by Peter Baumgartner

Our Kickstarter campaign for a companion video series to our book High Performance Django ended today just shy of its target. We consider it a great success! That's right... a success. When we started the campaign, our internal goal was …

uWSGI is one of those interesting projects that keeps adding features with every new release without becoming totally bloated, slow, and/or unstable. In this post, we'll look at some of its lesser used features and how you might use them …

I've been working on improving our deployment processes as part of the High Performance Django Infrastructure project we're building out. One consistent pain point is our front-end build system, and particularly, npm installs. For a number of reasons, instead of …

Alternate title: Pip 7 is Awesome, Here's Why A typical Python deployment looks like this: Pave the server, setting up a virtualenv and installing any pre-requisites necessary to build/install the Python requirements (compiler, development headers, etc.). To update to a …

Part of my job at Lincoln Loop is to explore new technologies and make sure that, as a company, we stay current. I've been playing around with Docker for a while, but recently decided to redeploy some of our production …

One of the most common requests we've heard since releasing our book, High Performance Django is: "Do you have more code/configuration examples?" It's a pretty loaded question because the book covers everything from Python code to deploying and configuring servers. …

With the launch of our book, High Performance Django, we’ve received a number of inquiries from people asking for advice, for which the answers are too specific to their application to give good general advice, and too short to sign …

Do you manage a website? Does it have a login form? Can somebody brute force attack it with every common username/password combination until they find one that works? For many small web applications, the answer to all of the above …

Last month, I presented High Performance Django: From Runserver to Reddit Hugs at DjangoCon US in Portland. My assertion was that Django, left to its own devices, does not scale. With the right supporting servers, however, it can scale fantastically. …

I'm excited to announce that our book, High Performance Django is officially complete. You can buy a copy at highperformancedjango.com now. Thank You Writing the book was hard work and there were definitely times where the challenge felt insurmountable. I …