The Inner Guts of Bitbucket

Explore the intricate architecture of Bitbucket in this 29-minute EuroPython Conference talk. Delve into the comprehensive infrastructure that powers a platform serving repositories to over a million developers, having grown more than 30 times since its acquisition. Gain insights into the evolution from a modest Django app to a complex, horizontally scalable system. Discover the technology choices behind Bitbucket's rapid growth, including Gunicorn, Django, Celery, HA-Proxy, and NFS. Learn how Python remains at the core of this expansive stack, offering valuable lessons for scaling applications. Uncover every component of Bitbucket's architecture, from web servers and message brokers to load balancing and managing hundreds of terabytes of data.