Caktus Group Welcomes Designer and Front End Developer Julia Elman
I'm delighted to announce that Julia Elman has joined our growing team of web developers here at Caktus. Julia started her design career almost 10 years ago in an internal marketing group, and first learned about Django at the SXSW Interactive Festival in 2008. Prior to joining the Caktus ...
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Bulk inserts in Django
I recently found a way to speed up a large data import far more than I expected.
The task was to read data from a text file and create data records in Django, and the naive implementation was managing to import about 55 records per second, which was going to ...
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Testing Web Server Configurations with Fabric and ApacheBench
Load testing a site with ApacheBench is fairly straight forward. Typically you'd just SSH to a machine on the same network as the one you want to test, and run a command like this:
ab -n 500 -c 50 http://my.web.server/path/to/page/
The -n argument ...