High Performance Django Videos Kickstarter

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JJ Zolper

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Oct 23, 2015, 12:25:56 PM10/23/15

to Django users

I was one of the original backers for the book and now the Lincoln Loop guys are doing some High Performance Django Videos.

For anyone that can help us push this Kickstarter over the top that would be greatly appreciated.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1704706557/high-performance-django-videos/description

Here are some details per the Kickstarter:

We will produce a series of screencasts giving viewers an "over-the-shoulder" look at how we build out a deployment system using the best practices described in the book. We'll start from scratch and work our way up to a high performance site running in the cloud.

Topics Covered

Virtual machines with Vagrant and VirtualBox
Configuration management with Salt
Salt organization and best practices
Django project organization and deployment
Starting and managing services
Configuring uWSGI, Postgres, Nginx, Varnish, Redis, etc.
Using encryption to protect secrets in Salt
Infrastructure automation with Terraform and Salt Cloud (using Digital Ocean and Amazon Web Services as examples)
Basic service orchestration/discovery
Load balancing with Nginx, Varnish, and Amazon's ELB
Simple versioning and rollback strategy
General Linux configuration and server hardening