This saves something like 15ms on our 1000 message get_old_messages
queries, and will save even more when we start sending JSON dumps into
our memcached system.
We need to install python-ujson on servers and dev instances before
pushing this to prod.
(imported from commit 373690b7c056d00d2299a7588a33f025104bfbca)
See PEP 328[1] for details. This feature was introduced in Python 2.5 and
will become mandatory in Python 3.
[1]: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0328
(imported from commit 7444eeba8a08d5f91b94c7921848f2274979bd76)
This creates a new management command, subscribe_new_users, which should be
run as a daemon process. When new users are created, an event is passed to
RabbitMQ including the following data:
* Email
* Full name
* IP address of the person who confirmed registration
* Time of registration confirmation
MailChimp strongly encourages the collection of the last two to enable
responses to abuse requests, and providing more data lowers the chance that
we could get banned from their service if complaints do occur.
To use this commit, you need to install the "postmonkey" module from
PyPI.
(imported from commit 20c628c3fa8bb985aaead85a80ad3b38bf94b9dc)
