new.plone.org - modernized buildout

A short note and to let the planet know too: The plone.org team did meanwhile great work on the migration of plone.org to version 3.

The current site is known as slow and this mainly because of a strange effects with database connections so we can not configure the zeo-cluster to get all out of the (not-so-fast) maschine.

The new setup buildout was prepared by Alex Clark [edited, old: Wichert (wrong) - he wrote the varnish recipe!] including modern varnish and supervisord technology. But by structure it was still almost the same as the old one - and so slightly outdated and not flexible enough. I took it and turned it into a more flexible structure using the full power of buildout. Now it service different target-groups: developer who wants to extend the plone.org; an administrator who wants to check the cluster and last but not least the deployments on the new.plone.org and later on also at the live plone.org.
Also Pound load-balancer was added to enable cookie-stickyness.

There are many open todos on buildout. Primary its to optimize the setup. Its almost all about caching in its variants, but also about optimized cluster usage. I'll go on with later and let you know then.