Description
Scaling Python webapps from zero to 50 million users - A top-down approach
Presented by Jinal Jhaveri
LOLapps is one of the top providers of social games and user generated applications with 50+ million monthly uniques on Facebook, MySpace and Bebo. This session will focus on the top-down approach we took to scale our webapps for millions of users. Here are the 6 topics we will cover:
- Why is performance a big issue for Social Media
- How we profiled our apps and found bottlenecks using custom developed and existing middleware
- The web application best practices we applied and results obtained
- How we traced database connection leaks
- Our caching strategies and the changes we made to speed up the memcache client
- Results of our experiment using Paster and Tornado as our web servers.