== 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 [http://www.slideshare.net/zeeg/djangocon-2010-scaling-disqus 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) [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. * 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 (???) * [http://blog.apps.chicagotribune.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) * [http://pitchfork.com/ 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