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Sachin Rekhi

Sachin Rekhi

Microsoft Stack

Open Source Software Stack

Next Generation LAMP...

Front End

Web Standards: HTML 4.0 \ CSS 2.0 \ JavaScriptJavaScript Library: jQuery

Makes JavaScript enjoyable!Django TemplatesTools: Eclipse Web Tools Project: HTML Editor

Syntax highlighting, tag completion, block matching, ...Zero visual editor support

Server Side

Full static analysis suiteExecuted on file save (since no compile)

Python Code EditorCode completion, syntax analysis, Syntax highlighting, Refactoring

URL DispatchingMiddleware, File Uploads, Forms SupportUnit testing w/ db fixtures, site automation

DataDjango ORM

full object-oriented data access only write SQL when you need to optimize

Django Admincomplete interface for accessing & updating data

�Administered by django or command-line toolsHardest to scale on cloud platforms

Sharding is hard, so scale up

�In-memory key\value store ideal for cacheSignificantly improves response times, throughputDistributed across all front-end boxes

DeployEC2 Compute Cluster for web servers, task processing, db serverS3 for data storage

Apache: app web serverNginx: static files, round robin load balancing

Open source community Linux sponsored by Red Hat

Extensible server monitoringLarge community of plugins

Subversion hosted on Webfaction shared hostingsvnX: Mac client for SVN

Questions?

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Backup

Front End

Server Side

Data

Deploy