Collin Grady

As someone who has been digging through a lot of job listings, I have a suggestion for those writing them:

Please, stop posting what you don’t want, and limit it to what you do.

I’ve been looking mostly for telecommute jobs, but when I search for telecommute along with other keywords, I find posting after posting saying “NO TELECOMMUTE” or similar – you’re only going to attract people looking for that keyword by posting it

If they just left it at “ON-SITE ONLY” it would not show up in a search for telecommute positions

So at work recently, we started looking at switching our django setups from mod_python to mod_wsgi, as we kept having memory and cpu use issues with mod_python, and mod_wsgi was supposed to be far better with performance.

Well, it’s only been a day so far, but the results have been very promising. Our memory usage was cut in half, and load bottomed out.

Edit: this is daemon mode with threads=1

Initial testing showed more drastic improvements, so for anyone else testing, take initial results with a grain of salt

With that said, here are the actual results:

Just after switching:

A day after switching:

Too early to be absolutely sure that everything is working well, but it’s all looking good so far

I really have to agree with John Cleese…

Not too long ago at work, we added a few more servers to our production deployment to speed things up – however, this made deploying code changes a bit more complicated, as you had to remember to update several servers every time.  I decided to look into Capistrano, which I’d heard about before, and am glad to say it’s working very well, once I managed to figure it out.
Continue reading Deploying Projects With Capistrano…

Today my blog was hacked, erasing the most recent post in favor of spam links. Thankfully, I was able to recover it from Google’s cache, but I’m tired of all the issues maintaining my own blog.

As a result, I’ve decided to move my blog here, so that I don’t have to deal with the hassle anymore.