Lightning talks (Wednesday)
Several five minute talks about various subjects.
Érico Andrei on behalf of Plone.Gov.Br
Érico is selling Brasília as the location for the Plone conference in October 2013.
PloneEdu
Universities are special kind users of Plone: large setups, large number of sites. However a limited number of people are working on it. To discuss best practises, meetups are organised, e.g. in Germany.
If you are working in a university, please come to the open space session and join our effort.
Dylan Jay
Victorian SES wanted a secure, multi-site CMS that they could theme themselves and have 99.99% uptime. They used Diazo to theme the site, and they are not Plone people.
They are using CDN, Nginx, Varnish, Haproxy, Zope/Plone and MySQL (RelStorage).
During an earthquake everyone feeling the quake potentially will go to the site. That are a lot of people suddenly hitting your site. So there is no time to spin up additional servers. Therefore, they cache every page for one minute to handle the load.
They tried to use Funkload and jmeter to generate enough traffic to test the site but eventually ended up using the hosting provider to do so. Otherwise they could not get to the level they needed to properly test the site.
Two months after they went live, an earthquake hit the area. And the site could handle it—in contrast to their competitors.
Godefroid Chapelle
A talk about collective.jekyll. This product adds diagnostic data when viewing a page. There’s also an overview to show the states of multiple (all?) objects.
Davide Moro
Davide presented Ploomcake. It is a Plone distribution that provides an easy way to quickly evaluate Plone. It contains, amongst other things: a responsive theme, LinguaPlone if needed and captcha support.
Domen Kožar
Chris McDonough wrote Substance D. Domen worked on it during the last Google Summer of Code. It’s basically Zope 2 in Pyramid. Not released yet, so use at your own risk. However, it is already in use on a couple of production sites.
Patrick Gerken
A talk about Sentry. It’s very easy to get Sentry up and running. It will show you the errors that occurred and how many times it happened. It will only send an email once per problem. For each error details like which site, the used browser, etc. are shown. You can also see a lot about the environment at the time the error happened. And even get information about the user that experienced the error.
You can get a hosted version, there is even a (limited) free plan. But you have to make sure that you are not sending secret stuff to another server (like passwords).
Maurits van Rees
Maurits presented a couple of useful packages. See his presentation on GitHub for the details.