Django in heavy load environment

Django in Heavy Load Environment

Andy@Python Web Meetup 11/04/2014

Django Doesn’t Scale

How About These Sites?

Framework Does’t Scale

Django in HEAVY LOAD Environment

30 users/second -> 400 users/second

LOAD TESTING

ab - Apache HTTP server benchmarking tool

Apache JMeter

Since We are in Python Web Meetup…

LIVE DEMO

400 Users/Second = 30 Million Users/Day

RECAP

• From 30 users/seconds to 400 users/seconds

• Use locust.io to do load testing

• nginx/HAproxy/ELB as load balancer

• Varnish to cache

Something we don’t cover today

• Scaling Your Database

• Optimizing Django Application

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