Thomas Brox Røst

Persistent Django on Amazon EC2 and EBS - The easy way

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

Now that Amazon's Elastic Block Store (EBS) is publicly available, running a complete Django installation on Amazon Web Services (AWS) is easier than ever. Why EBS? EBS provides persistent storage, which means that the Django database is kept safe even after the Django EC2 instances terminate. This tutorial will take you through ...

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Serving static files with Django and AWS - going fast on a budget

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

I just posted an article on how to improve Django response times through the use of pre-generated static files: Speed matters. When Google tried adding 20 extra results to their search pages, traffic dropped by 20%. The reason? Page generation took an extra .5 seconds. This article will show how Eventseer utilizes an ...

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