– Motivation for using Django and Python

– Despite being ~6 years old it uses Python 3.x but it also uses Django 1.8

– It’s 1 monolithic app split into about 20 Django apps across ~15k lines of code

– Staff workers are using the Django admin and there’s full text search with PostgreSQL

– It runs nginx on a bare metal server, also bulk CSV imports are done via cron jobs

– Walking us through the deploy process from development to production

– Traffic is served internally over HTTP and nginx serves static files

– Database backups were saved onto S3 and a backup hasn’t had to be used yet

– Taking the application down means 50 people stand around doing nothing

– Best tips? Make the smallest possible changes at a time and plan for having a team

– Galen is on GitHub if you want to see what he’s up to