== Case Study Candidates, with points of contact == See also CaseStudyQuestionnaire. * 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 [http://www.slideshare.net/zeeg/djangocon-2010-scaling-disqus Scaling Disqus]. * NASA Nebula (Jesse Andrews) * PBS (@tarequeh) [http://www.slideshare.net/nowells/djangocon-09-presentation-pluggable-applications Pluggable applications] slides and [http://www.slideshare.net/shawnrider/teaching-an-old-pony-new-tricks-maintaining-and-updating-and-aging-django-site Teaching an old pony new tricks] slides. * http://projects.washingtonpost.com (???) * [http://blog.apps.chicagotribune.com/ Chicago Tribune] ( Christopher Groskopf / @onyxfish ) * Everyblock (Adrian Holovaty, Joseph Kocherhans) * LexisNexis ( Bryan Weingarten ) * addons.mozilla.org (Jeff Balogh) - Site serves 165 million requests per month. Was previously using CakePHP. * Cox Media (Chris Heisel) * University of Texas (Gary Wilson) * National Geographic (Rich Leland) * http://politifact.com/ ( Matt Waite/@mattwaite , @jeremybowers ) * Onion (Tom Tobin, Michael Greer) - interview http://djangositeoftheweek.com/av-club/ * Mahalo (Jeff Ammons) * Sunlight Labs (James Turk) * Nazareth College (@StevenLukeSmith / fvox13) * Qualcomm (??? does anyone have a contact?) * 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) * ~~Curse.com - 15M unique visitors / month - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-4UN4MkSyI&feature=related~~ Per David Cramer, who used to work there, they are no longer on Django (.Net, part of why he left). * [http://pitchfork.com/ Pitchfork] (@blackbrrr / @seanbrant) * SimpleGeo (Mike Malone, Joe Stump) * Urban Airship ( Michael Richardson , Adam Lowry ) * RapidSMS (Andy McKay, Matt Berg) saving kids lives with Django * BazaarVoice (Jon Loyens) * Sunlight Foundation Labs ( James Turk ) * Discovery (Josh Ourisman) Should mine http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=750142