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25th February 2009 - Link Blog

django-springsteen and Distributed Search. Will Larson’s Django search library currently just talks to Yahoo! BOSS, but is designed to be extensible for other external search services. Interestingly, it uses threads to fire off several HTTP requests in parallel from within the Django view.

Posted 25th February 2009 at 10:28 pm

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This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 25th February 2009.

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