Cheating Your Way to #Webscale

Abstract:

Both Disqus and Sentry are very large Python/Django applications that see a relatively enormous amount of web traffic. Interestingly enough, Disqus and Sentry both have polar opposite needs when it comes to scaling. Disqus is very read heavy, and Sentry is very write heavy. I will be comparing and contrasting the different approaches each product uses to handle their respective loads and explain how these concepts can be applied to your own web applications. Spoiler alert: it involves a lot of cheating!

Matt Robenolt:

Lead operations engineer at Disqus and core contributor to Sentry.

Schedule:

6:30pm - Check in and socialize. Food & Drinks supplied by Disqus.

7:00pm - Lightning talks

1. Ryan Blunden - Notable features in Django 1.7

2. ?

3. ?

7:20pm - Matt's talk

8:00pm - Q&A

8:30pm - Time to head home

Notes from Disqus:

• Please use your full name on your meetup handle to make the check-in process easy for us.

• Disqus is kindly providing us with food & drinks, please clean up after yourself!

About Disqus:

Disqus is a free service that enables great online communities. As the web’s most popular discussion system, Disqus is used by 3 million websites that cover pretty much any topic imaginable. Our magic is in connecting people to stuff worth talking about.