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Andrew Godwin, TweetWriting shiny things for Lanyrd
Biography: Andrew Godwin
A web developer, systems administrator and technical architect, Andrew is a developer at Lanyrd as well as a core committer on the Django web framework and specialises in databases and visualisation. He is also a private pilot and archer in his spare time.
Twitter: @andrewgodwin
Presentation: TweetInside Lanyrd's Architecture
From humble beginnings on a Moroccan holiday in 2010, Lanyrd has gained complexity, many new features, and a lot of users. Learn how we grew our stack, the new technologies we tried (and sometimes ignored), some of the clever tricks you can pull as a content-heavy site, and some of the things we'd do differently if we could start afresh - as well as how a small team and rapid deployment helps us quickly adapt to any new problem we face.