Simon Willison’s Weblog

ericflo’s django-tokyo-sessions. A Django sessions backend using Tokyo Cabinet, via Tokyo Tyrant and the PyTyrant library. A fast key/value store is a much better solution for sessions than a relational database.

# 7th May 2009, 7:30 am / django, sessions, keyvaluestores, tokyocabinet, tokyotyrant, pytyrant, databases, eric-florenzano

Spawning + Django. The latest version of Spawning (a fast Python web server built on top of the Eventlet non-blocking coroutine networking library) can run Django applications out of the box, using threads and processes to work around the blocking nature of the ORM’s database drivers. Eric Florenzano reports better performance than Apache and mod_wsgi, and is now hosting his site on it.

# 31st July 2008, 10:56 am / eric-florenzano, django, python, comet, eventlet, spawning

Extra fields on many-to-many relationships (via) Checked in just over an hour ago, Django now lets you specify a custom “through” table for a ManyToManyField. Great work by Eric Florenzano.

# 29th July 2008, 1:58 pm / manytomany, eric-florenzano, django, python, through