Simon Willison’s Weblog

Making Facebook 2x Faster. Facebook have a system called BigPipe which allows them to progressively send their pages to the browser as the server-side processing completes to optimise client loading time. Anyone reverse engineered this yet to figure out how they actually do it?

# 9:14 am / bigpage, facebook, optimisation, performance

jacobian’s django-deployment-workshop. Notes and resources from Jacob’s 3 hour Django deployment workshop at PyCon, including example configuration files for Apache2 + mod_wsgi, nginx, PostgreSQL and pgpool.

# 2:28 pm / apache, deployment, django, jacob-kaplan-moss, modwsgi, nginx, pgpool, postgresql, pycon, python, sysadmin