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 ...
Eclipse with the PyDev module has a lot to offer the Python programmer these days. If you haven't looked at PyDev before, or not in a while, it's worth checking out.
Here are some of my favorite features:
We've been using RapidSMS, a Django-powered SMS framework, more and more frequently here at Caktus. It's evolved a lot over the past year-- from being reworked to feel more like a Django app, to merging the rapidsms-core-dev and rapidsms-contrib-apps-dev repositories into a single codebase (no more submodules!), to ...
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I'm excited to announce that Caktus is launching its summer internship program. It is a 12 week paid position in our Carrboro, NC office. We're in driving distance from UNC Chapel Hill, NC State in Raleigh, and Duke in Durham, so students from all parts of the NC ...
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We just got back from another fun and successful PyCon. While we didn't get to stay for much of the sprints we did get to spend some time in the Django sprint Sunday and Monday. Monday morning I was there early and I noticed a bit of confusion among ...
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