Top all-time · #3069
REVSYS
Company blog · revsys.com/blog · on HN as frankwilesprogrammingwebdata
REVSYS is the company blog at revsys.com, writing about programming, web and data. Since 2009, 24 different Hacker News readers have linked it 43 times, most often “Performance Tuning PostgreSQL”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
REVSYS is a leader in Open Source consulting and support. Specializing in infrastructure scaling, development, and AI using Django, Python, and PostgreSQL.
Most-linked posts?
- Performance Tuning PostgreSQL4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2009-03-30
- Transcript of Revolution Systems "office hours" Q&A session yesterday.3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2010-11-06
- Django 1.3 cheat sheet from revsys.com3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-03-21
- Python Dataclasses and attrs: when and why3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-06-04
- Three things you should never put in your database2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-05-01
- HOWTO: How to make multiple SSH connections to the same host faster2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-07-30
What Hacker News says?
Here's another reasonable summary: https://www.revsys.com/tidbits/greet_pause-a-new-anti-spam-f... I get several thousand SPAM attempts per day: I estimate that this one technique kills a large fraction of them. And look how old the feature is...
Comment linking /tidbits/greet_pause-a-new-anti-spam-feature-in-sendmail-813x/
on “Tell HN: T.co is adding a ~5 second delay to domains they don't like”Submitted Three things you should never put in your database as a story · 146 points
HN discussionI learned a lot by watching this and I highly recommend it but the viewer should be warned that many of the tools and techniques seem to have fallen out of favor in the Django community. In my personal experience nginx+gunicorn turned out to be much easier to deal with than the reference Apache+mod_wsgi. It also seems to be JKM's current preference. Likewise, buildout, while very powerful can be a bit burdensome, an…
Comment linking /officehours/2010/nov/05/
on “Django Deployment Workshop by Jacob Kaplan-Moss”Submitted Django 1.3 cheat sheet from revsys.com as a story · 101 points
HN discussionhttp://www.revsys.com/officehours/2010/nov/05/ See jacobian's comment here saying "I know of at least one publisher who's decided not to print any more Django books because they decided they can't compete with the docs". Django comprehensive docs were what convinced me to choose Django over RoR 3 years backs when I had to choose between RoR and Django first.
Comment linking /officehours/2010/nov/05/
on “Ask HN: Experienced C programmer, new to web, which language/framework to use?”Submitted Performance Tuning PostgreSQL as a story · 73 points
HN discussionMy problem with PostgreSQL is that you're half expected to tweak it to your needs. That's a myth. Postgres runs out of the box just as well as MySQL, with no more configuration effort. A good starting point could be: http://www.revsys.com/writings/postgresql-performance.html As you can see there is only a very small number of settings that you really should set consciously, just as you have to choose consciously bet…
Comment linking /writings/postgresql-performance.html
on “MyISAM, InnoDB, and PostgreSQL”Submitted Optimized Python Docker Image as a story · 59 points
HN discussionThe problem with the pure service model is that only RedHat and a few other companies have been successful at it. The argument “I created it, so I can service it best” doesn’t hold anymore- too many people have technical expertise in open source software. So unless your service is the cheapest and the best, it’ll be killed off by other service providers. I've seen this claim quite a few times ("the service model onl…
Comment linking /services/django/
on “Modern Thoughts on Open Source”Submitted Grove isn't dead, it's only resting as a story · 45 points
HN discussionSome more SSH tips 1. Use SSH connection multiplexing If you are connecting to same computer multiple times, this saves up quite a bit of time http://www.revsys.com/writings/quicktips/ssh-faster-connecti... 2. Use autossh For a persistent ssh connection (ex. for reverse tunnels) http://www.debianadmin.com/autossh-automatically-restart-ssh...
Comment linking /writings/quicktips/ssh-faster-connections.html
on “SSH login without password (authorized_keys)”Submitted Fixing journalism and how it benefits Django as a story · 24 points
HN discussionIn default configuration for mysql and postgresql daemons, these benchmarks don't do anything to make full use of the hardware cited. Here are guides for the respective db configs. http://www.revsys.com/writings/postgresql-performance.html http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2006/09/29/what-to-tune-...
Comment linking /writings/postgresql-performance.html
on “R17 on spinning disk faster than PostgreSQL on SSD”Submitted Wagtail 1.0 (beta) best Django CMS? as a story · 16 points
HN discussionRevsys put out a nice Django cheatsheet a while back. I don't think it's been updated since 1.5, but I've used it when I'm starting a new Django project for the first time in a while. I find it helpful for reminding me of things I've used before, but not often enough to remember the exact syntax off the top of my head. http://www.revsys.com/django/cheatsheet/
Comment linking /django/cheatsheet/
on “Ask HN: Do you use cheatsheets?”Submitted Django cheat sheets for versions 1.3, 1.4, and now 1.5 as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted HOWTO: How to make multiple SSH connections to the same host faster as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Transcript of Revolution Systems "office hours" Q&A session yesterday. as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Python Dataclasses and attrs: when and why as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Brief Intro to Docker for Djangonauts as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted $90 million, is that the best we can do? as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Centralized logging for fun and profit as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Performance Tuning PostgreSQL as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted 12 Days of Christmas Performance as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ultimate Front End Development Setup as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Optimized Python as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Docker: Useful Command Line Stuff as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Django Performance: 4 Simple Things as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Three things you should never put in your database as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Extended chat with lead Django developers as a story · 3 points
HN discussion
