Alexys Jacob - Designing a scalable and distributed application [EuroPython 2015] [22 July 2015] [Bilbao, Euskadi, Spain] One of the key aspect to keep in mind when developing a scalable application is its faculty to grow easily. But while we're used to take advantage of scalable backend technologies such as mongodb or couchbase, **scaling automatically our own application** core is usually another story. In this talk I will **explain and showcase** a distributed web application design based on **consul** and **uWSGI** and its consul plugin. This design will cover the key components of a distributed and scalable application: - **Automatic service registration and discovery** will allow your application to grow itself automatically. - **Health checking and service unregistration** will allow your application to be fault tolerant, highly available and to shrink itself automatically. - A **distributed Key/Value storage** will allow you to (re)configure your distributed application nodes at once. - **Multi-Datacenter awareness** will allow your application to scale around the world easily. [Slides of this talk are available here][1] ! [1]: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1bZ30UculKOM4IQ4ic5X2fLpz1Fe1QQPVqJLtshIO0pg/edit?usp=sharing