A Day in the Life of a Silicon Valley Startup
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A presentation that describes my transition from a Microsoft-based web stack to an open source Python\Django stack built on top of a cloud platform.
A Day in the Life of a Silicon Valley Startup
- 1. A Day in the Life of a Silicon Valley Startup The World Outside MS Dev Tools - Open Source Software, Amazon WS, and more... Sachin Rekhi
- 2. Sachin Rekhi
- 4. Open Source Software Stack Next Generation LAMP...
- 7. Front End Web Standards: HTML 4.0 CSS 2.0 JavaScript JavaScript Library: jQuery Makes JavaScript enjoyable! Django Templates Tools: Eclipse Web Tools Project: HTML Editor Syntax highlighting, tag completion, block matching, ... Zero visual editor support
- 8. Server Side URL Dispatching Middleware, File Uploads, Forms Support Unit testing w/ db fixtures, site automation Python Code Editor Code completion, syntax analysis, Syntax highlighting, Refactoring Full static analysis suite Executed on file save (since no compile)
- 9. Data Django ORM full object-oriented data access only write SQL when you need to optimize Django Admin complete interface for accessing & updating data Administered by django or command- line tools Hardest to scale on cloud platforms Sharding is hard, so scale up In-memory keyvalue store ideal for cache Significantly improves response times, throughput Distributed across all front-end boxes
- 10. Deploy EC2 Compute Cluster for web servers, task processing, db server S3 for data storage Apache: app web server Nginx: static files, round robin load balancing Open source community Linux sponsored by Red Hat Extensible server monitoring Large community of plugins Subversion hosted on Webfaction shared hosting svnX: Mac client for SVN
- 12. Backup
- 13. Front End
- 20. Server Side
- 24. Data
- 31. Deploy