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9th October 2009 - Link Blog

MichaelMoore.com in Django. A seriously impressive case study—a complete rebuild from the ground up completed in just five weeks using Django, Solr and Haystack for a high traffic site with a top 10,000 US Alexa ranking.

Posted 9th October 2009 at 12:38 am

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