Case Study: Django + Agile = Sportsgirl redevelopment

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A rapid Sportsgirl community rebuild used Django, Pinax and an agile workflow to ship in under eight weeks. The case study covers the stack, cloud deployment and performance tuning that made it work at scale.

Published: Sunday, July 26th 2009

4 mins (812 words)

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