Best continuously updated resource about python web "plumbing"

Question

I'm a programmer in Python who works on web-applications. I know a fair bit about the application level. But not so much about the underlying "plumbing" which I find myself having to configure or debug.

I'm thinking of everything from using memcached to flup, fcgi, WSGI etc.

When looking for information about these, online, Google typically delivers older-documents (eg. tutorials from before 2007), fragments of problems that may or may not have been resolved etc.

Are there any good comprehensive and up-to-date resources to learn about how to put together a modern, high-performance server? One that explains both principles of the architecture and the actual packages?

Answer 1

Buy this. http://www.amazon.com/Scalable-Internet-Architectures-Developers-Library/dp/067232699X

Answer 2

Zope is a still evolving framework, written in Python and is documented online. For a start, see Zope Concepts and Architecture. Like other Python based web frameworks, the source is your best reference.

Note that Zope is not easy to grasp, and is different from frameworks like Django.

Answer 3

• General info about highly efficient web architecture: http://highscalability.com/
• Interesting Python related articles: http://www.onlamp.com/python/
• Printed magazine: http://pythonmagazine.com/

Answer 4

You can use this terminology to limit search results to the past year:

http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/2860/google_how_to_access_filter_by_date_dropdown_box/