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What are you some good blogs, videos, papers, etc. on scaling Django?

We’re building up a pretty sizable collection of video (and slides) from talks about Django on http://lanyrd.com/—including plenty that talk about scaling issues. Try this: http://lanyrd.com/search/?q=djan...—we have 16 videos and 16 slide decks from talks at events all over the world.

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Why does Django still not have support for multiple joins?

I don’t fully understand the question, but if you’re talking about doing a single join across multiple tables the Django ORM handles that just fine. Let’s say you want to get every BlogEntry written by a User who belongs to the Group with the name “admins”:

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Django (web framework): Why did theonion.com stop using Drupal?

They wrote about their reasons in detail in a post to the Django sub-reddit a while ago: http://www.reddit.com/r/django/c...

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What is the highest traffic website built on top of Django?

My best guess would be Disqus. Instagram are pretty enormous these days as well.

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