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Monday, 2nd October 2017

Should You Build a Webhooks API? (via) We had to solve for pretty much all of these issues when we built Eventbrite’s webhooks—this article would have saved us a lot of time! # 5:01 am

Running gunicorn behind nginx on Heroku for buffering and logging

Heroku’s default setup for Django uses the gunicorn application server. Each Heroku dyno can only run a limited number of gunicorn workers, which means a limited number of requests can be served in parallel (around 4 per dyno is a good rule of thumb).

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