Disqus: Scaling the World’s Largest Django Application (2010) [video]

Re:Disqus: Scaling the World’s Largest Django Application (2... by hahainternet on Thursday November 22, 2012 @06:21AM (#4818371)

What struck me instantly was the use of Slony. I haven't listened to the whole thing yet but I am interested in their justification. Perhaps they just haven't moved to 9.2 yet.

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Re:Disqus: Scaling the World’s Largest Django Application (2... by sugarcode on Thursday November 22, 2012 @02:14PM (#4819724)

slony offers some compelling advantages over streaming replication - even on new databases we setup, we still like slony for several reasons:

* Version upgrades (streaming replication requires the same PG version between master/slave, slony does not)

* Logical replication gives us finer-grained control over how data is replicated across the cluster

* Ability to create additional indexes on slaves

slony isn't perfect and it has caused us some headaches, but its flexibility makes it our go-to replication tool for postgres.

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Re:Disqus: Scaling the World’s Largest Django Application (2... by d0ugal on Thursday November 22, 2012 @09:47AM (#4818904)

I don't think they could move to 9.2 in 2010 ;)

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