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Read on Wednesday, May 12, 2010
- Cassandra @ Twitter: An Interview with Ryan King
  Great interview about Twitters plans to use Cassandra. Featuring questions like, Why?, How?, etc. Very good read.
  Visit architecture, cassandra, database, deployment, development, interview, performance, sql, twitter
Read on Sunday, May 2, 2010
- 5 Ways to Speed Up Your Site
  Paul Stamatiou explains how you can speed you your page very effectively. Great article.
  Visit cache, html, optimization, performance
- Media and performance
  Great article on how to serve media in a very performant way.
  Visit amazon, apache, architecture, django, performance, s3, server
Read on Sunday, January 24, 2010
- Linux performance basics
  Some Linux performance basics.
  Visit howto, linux, performance, reference, tips
Read on Saturday, June 13, 2009
- Dust-Me Selectors
  Looks great: A Firefox extension that finds unused CSS selectors.
  Visit -tweet, css, debug, debugging, design, development, extension, firefox, html, optimization, performance, plugin, programming, tool, webdesign
Read on Monday, December 8, 2008
- django-orm-cache
  This project is an attempt to provide a low-level, somewhat magical, approach to handling row-level object caches.
  Visit cache, database, django, orm, performance
Read on Tuesday, August 19, 2008
- django_templatecomponents
  A django application that makes it easy to organize your component source (JavaScript, CSS) right in your django templates to make your website much faster.
  Visit css, django, javascript, performance, template
- High Performance Web Sites
  These rules are the key to speeding up your web pages. They've been tested on some of the most popular sites on the Internet and have successfully reduced the response times of those pages by 25-50%.
  Visit javascript, optimization, performance, server
- StaticGenerator for Django
  StaticGenerator is a Python class for Django that makes it easy to create static files for lightning fast performance.
  Visit django, optimization, performance, static
Read on Friday, August 15, 2008
- Serving static files with Django and AWS - going fast on a budget
  Great explanation of how to conditionally avoid Django and send static files through lighttpd directly. Here is also explained how to use and integrate AWS for difficult calculation jobs.
  Visit lighttpd, performance, python, reference, s3, server, static, tutorial
- GenericForeignKeys with less queries
  When working with generic relations in Django you have to be quite careful not to end up with n+1 queries for a simple fetch of n elements.
  Visit contenttypes, database, django, generic, optimization, performance, select_related
Read on Sunday, July 6, 2008
- Django performance tips
  Explanation of how to optimize performance of a django application. (Here is written that PostgreSQL is better than MySQL...)
  Visit database, django, memcached, mysql, performance, postgresql
- Django performance testing - a real world example
  Testing and optimizing a django application. Really great tutorial.
  Visit benchmark, django, performance, testing
- Media moves
  James explains, how any why he uses amazon's S3 service.
  Visit amazon, django, performance, s3, storage, tutorial
Read on Thursday, June 19, 2008
- CSS Sprite Generator
  Great tool to generate Sprite images and CSS at once.
  Visit css, generator, optimization, performance, sprite, webdesign
Read on Wednesday, June 4, 2008
- A Cache Status View for Django
  I wanted an easy way to see what the memcached server is up to, and came up with a a simple Django view that grabs the current status from the server.
  Visit cache, django, memcached, performance

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