Case Study Candidates, with points of contact

See also CaseStudyQuestionnaire.

Scaling

• Disqus (Brett Hoerner, David Cramer)
  • Powers commenting on CNN.com, MTV.com, Engadget. 250 million users per month, 17,500 requests/sec. they have around 100 servers. See slides on ​Scaling Disqus.
• addons.mozilla.org (Jeff Balogh) - Site serves 165 million requests per month. Was previously using CakePHP.
• BazaarVoice (Jon Loyens)
• RapidSMS (Andy McKay, Matt Berg) saving kids lives with Django

Non-profit

• PBS (@tarequeh) ​Pluggable applications slides and ​Teaching an old pony new tricks slides.
• National Geographic (Rich Leland @richleland)
• NASA Nebula (Jesse Andrews)
• Discovery (Josh Ourisman)

Education

• University of Texas (Gary Wilson)
• Nazareth College (@StevenLukeSmith / fvox13)

Media, news

• Cox Media (Chris Heisel)
• Onion (Tom Tobin, Michael Greer) - interview ​http://djangositeoftheweek.com/av-club/
• Everyblock (Adrian Holovaty, Joseph Kocherhans)
• ​http://projects.washingtonpost.com (???)
• ​Chicago Tribune ( Christopher Groskopf / @onyxfish )

Big business

• LexisNexis ( Bryan Weingarten )
• Qualcomm (??? does anyone have a contact?)

Others, not sure

• ​http://politifact.com/ ( Matt Waite/@mattwaite , @jeremybowers )
• Mahalo (Jeff Ammons)
• Sunlight Labs (James Turk)
• Compete.com (@roblacy)
• Nasuni ( Jesse Noller )
• Fluther.com - Q&A website with a learning question matching algorithm and a proxied, federated product with some interesting middleware (Tim Trueman/@timtrueman)
• ​Pitchfork (@blackbrrr / @seanbrant)
• SimpleGeo (Mike Malone, Joe Stump)
• Urban Airship ( Michael Richardson , Adam Lowry )
• Sunlight Foundation Labs ( James Turk )

Should mine ​http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=750142