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Fabric script to deploy minified, combined and otherwise optimized media.

Posted by tkopczuk on August 3, 2011

Fabric deployment script with a feature to automatically combine and minify js/css files and losslessly optimize images for a nice UX gain. S3 automated upload feature with a tweak to make it serve gzipped files.

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Setup a complete Django server, deploy, rollback – all in one powerful script.

Posted by ymirpl on July 25, 2011

Keep the upper hand in Django deployment.
Set up a complete Django production server using just one console command (nginx+gunicorn under supervisord, PostgreSQL).
Deployment with complete versioning and quick rollback to any of the previous versions. Different settings for different server groups (with setup, pre- and post deployment scripts).

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Getting Django on Heroku prancing 8 times faster.

Posted by tkopczuk on July 18, 2011

Deploying Django and gunicorn with multiple workers on a single free Heroku node.
Combined with an external PostgreSQL instance coupled with connection pooling, it gives a massive 8x speedup.

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Django and PostgreSQL – improving the performance with no effort and no code.

Posted by ymirpl on July 8, 2011

Improve your Django and PostgreSQL application performance by using connection pooling. No coding and virtually no effort required for 2 times better response times.

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How to send a proper unicode encoded email using Python 2.7

Posted by tkopczuk on June 28, 2011

While working on a Django Celery task to send thousands of emails in various languages I had a problem with sending accented letters. Web crossed the Unicode line a while ago – email has yet to follow.

My method works even with SendGrid.

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Recent Posts

  • Fabric script to deploy minified, combined and otherwise optimized media.
  • Setup a complete Django server, deploy, rollback – all in one powerful script.
  • Getting Django on Heroku prancing 8 times faster.
  • Django and PostgreSQL – improving the performance with no effort and no code.
  • How to send a proper unicode encoded email using Python 2.7

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