Simon Willison’s Weblog

Webistrano. Web based interface for managing Capistrano deployments. Cal recommends having a “deploy to live site” button in his book; this looks like an easy way to build that. 31st August 2007, 11:05 pm

Quick Django Benching. Django under Apache/mod_python outperforms nginx/FastCGI and LightTPD/FastCGI once you ramp up the concurrency levels. My setup for this site (Apache/mod_python behind an nginx proxy, with nginx handling static files) should give the best of both worlds. 17th February 2007, 4:56 pm

The Django Book: Deploying Django. Solid advice based on years of experience at the Journal-World and the Washington Post. 26th January 2007, 12:38 pm