Exploding memory usage in Django/uWSGI containers

Posted on Sat 07 December 2024 in hints-and-kinks • Tagged with Kubernetes, Django, Containers, systemd • 3 min read

We recently came across an interesting problem at work while migrating from one flavor of Kubernetes to another. It’s sufficiently obscure to merit a brief write-up for reference.


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Celery to Chew On

Posted on Wed 06 May 2020 in hints-and-kinks • Tagged with Django, MySQL, HAProxy, Celery, Python • 7 min read

Asynchronous Celery tasks that manipulate a MySQL/Galera database from a Django application can produce very interesting behavior when HAProxy is involved.


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Learn Complex Skills, From Anywhere: Combining Django, Ansible and OpenStack to teach any tech skill

Posted on Wed 23 January 2019 in presentations • Tagged with Conference, Open edX, OpenStack, Django, Ansible, linux.conf.au • 1 min read

My presentation from linux.conf.au 2019.


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