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Graham Dumpleton

Personal blog · blog.dscpl.com.auprogrammingweb

Graham Dumpleton's personal blog at blog.dscpl.com.au covers programming and web. Since 2008, 23 different Hacker News readers have linked it 25 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.

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25mentions?
23HN people?
2008–2018first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2010

Most-linked posts?

  1. /2009/05/blocking-requests-and-nginx-version-of.html
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2009-11-21

What Hacker News says?

  1. celias · 2015-09-14
    There's also Graham Dumpleton's "How you implemented your Python decorator is wrong" blog post - http://blog.dscpl.com.au/2014/01/how-you-implemented-your-py... and the related "Decorators and monkey patching" list http://blog.dscpl.com.au/p/decorators-and-monkey-patching.ht...

    Comment linking /p/decorators-and-monkey-patching.html

    on “Python Decorators in 12 Steps (2012)”
  2. kirubakaran · 2010-06-17

    Submitted The mod_python project is now officially dead. as a story · 39 points

    HN discussion
  3. davepeck · 2012-05-14
    It's worth pointing to Graham Dumpleton's blog [1] -- he seems to be the Python world's web hosting ninja. See the great slide deck [2] from his recent talk on hosting python web apps [3] -- the deck nicely captures the recent state of the world. Apache2 + mod_wsgi in Daemon mode is probably the most common approach (especially for VPSs), although I know several people who prefer nginx + gunicorn + supervisor. Both…

    Comment linking /

    on “Python Web Programming”
  4. drewr · 2010-03-29

    Submitted Improved WSGI script for Django (by mod-wsgi author) as a story · 27 points

    HN discussion
  5. yesimahuman · 2010-02-23
    Specifically this link: http://blog.dscpl.com.au/2009/05/blocking-requests-and-nginx...

    Comment linking /2009/05/blocking-requests-and-nginx-version-of.html

    on “Today is the 15th Anniversary of the Apache HTTP Server”
  6. j_baker · 2010-05-28

    Submitted Mod_python project soon to be officially dead as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  7. bad_user · 2011-06-07
    It's not the same - you have to compile Nginx with mod_wsgi support. It's not as simple as doing an "apt-get install nginx" and it may compile with your version, or it may not compile. Also, read this: http://blog.dscpl.com.au/2009/05/blocking-requests-and-nginx... mod_wsgi is an interesting example. Surely it has the wrong architecture for Nginx and something better could surely be written. But mod_wsgi for Apache…

    Comment linking /2009/05/blocking-requests-and-nginx-version-of.html

    on “June 2011 Web Server Survey”
  8. saurabh · 2012-12-05

    Submitted Let me Google that for you as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  9. moe · 2009-11-21
    As far as I know (correct me if I'm wrong) passenger is maintenance free. Anything else wouldn't make much sense anyways. It maintains a pool of workers and distributes load over them, just as it should be. mod_wsgi for apache seems to do the same so I should have been more specific: I'm still waiting for a proper mod_wsgi for nginx . The nginx mod_wsgi is not the same as the apache version. It has some very unfortu…

    Comment linking /2009/05/blocking-requests-and-nginx-version-of.html

    on “UWSGI is a fast (pure C), self-healing, developer-friendly WSGI server”
  10. iamelgringo · 2008-03-21

    Submitted Version 2.0 of mod_wsgi is now available. as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  11. ctoth · 2016-02-18

    Submitted Building a better user experience for deploying Python web applications as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  12. luord · 2018-01-30

    Submitted The “Decorator Pattern” vs. The Python “wrapt” Package as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. detaro · 2015-06-18

    Submitted Musings about PaaS and running many small micro services as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. andreif · 2014-08-17

    Submitted Transparent object proxies in Python as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. cd34 · 2011-10-28

    Submitted Graham Dumpleton re: New Relic, production performance measurement for apps as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. jp_sc · 2011-01-05

    Submitted Implementing WSGI application objects as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. grovulent · 2011-01-02

    Submitted Solving some of the problems with wsgi.file_wrapper as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  18. enduser · 2010-10-21

    Submitted Is PEP 3333 the final solution for WSGI on Python 3? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  19. masklinn · 2009-09-17

    Submitted A roadmap for the Python WSGI implementation. as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  20. mitchm · 2009-03-17

    Submitted Load spikes and excessive memory usage in mod_python as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  21. lorenzfx · 2014-02-21

    Submitted [python] Performance overhead when applying decorators to methods as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  22. ctoth · 2014-01-07

    Submitted How you implemented your Python decorator is wrong as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  23. amjith · 2012-10-14

    Submitted Why are you using embedded mode of mod_wsgi? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  24. sgrock · 2011-11-02

    Submitted New Relic is not just for Apache/mod_wsgi. as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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