Advanced Aspects of the Django Ecosystem - Haystack, Celery & Fabric

Explore advanced Django ecosystem components in this 54-minute EuroPython 2011 conference talk by Simon Willison. Dive into Haystack for search functionality, learning about backend selection and keeping indexes fresh. Discover a useful nginx and Solr replication trick. Delve into Celery for task management, starting with trivial examples and progressing to advanced concepts like the Activity Stream pattern. Master automated deployments using Fabric, covering simple examples, rollback techniques with symlinks, server configuration management, and dynamic nginx configuration generation. Gain insights to enhance your Django projects with powerful tools and efficient workflows.

Intro
Haystack
Pick your backend
Staying fresh
nginx + Solr replication trick
Tasks?
Trivial example
The task itself...
Behind the scenes...
Configuration
Advanced Celery
The Activity Stream pattern
Automated deployments
Simple examples
Rollback with symlinks
servers.json
In the fabfile.py
Dynamic nginx config