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Finding the Needle: DjangoCon 2013 Links

September 03, 2013

So I gave a talk at DjangoCon US today, “Finding the Needle”, all about search and Django, including Haystack and ElasticSearch. Here are some additional resources for your enjoyment. I’ll post a link to the video once it’s available (unless I bomb the talk).

Presentation slides on Speakerdeck https://speakerdeck.com/bennylope/finding-the-needle-djangocon-us-2013
My blog post on extending Haystack backends https://wellfire.co/blog/custom-haystack-elasticsearch-backend/
elasticstack sample code for extending Haystack and the ElasticSearch backend https://github.com/bennylope/elasticstack
The Factbook example app on Heroku https://ciafactbook.herokuapp.com
The Factbook source code https://github.com/bennylope/ciafactbook
Bonus! A clean, testable pattern for filtering quersets in search-like views https://wellfire.co/blog/simple-search-manager-methods/