ronnix/fabtools. Looks interesting - a few tools for Fabric with which you can manage simple system packages and Python packages (also within virtual environments). Should take a look, could simplify a few things when initializing work environments. However, Vagrant currently only uses Chef and Puppet and not Fabric, if I remember correctly.
Archive 18. June 2012
SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL Transact-SQL. There you can find more information about the isolation level in MSSQL, especially what the snapshot feature means. In principle, this makes MSSQL behave similarly to PostgreSQL.
#18251 multithreading deadlock in django.models.loading.get_apps – Django. And another thing that might affect us - race conditions between Django threads during the initialization of Django applications. There's already a patch for this that fixes it in the Django internals.
Enabling Snapshot Isolation - SQLAlchemy 0.7 Documentation. Could this help us? MSSQL seems to have a rather unfavorable isolation level as default. Hmm, we'll probably try it out.
"Prince Flo, King Django & The Deadlock Doctor" by Bluekilla – laut.de – Song. Okay, yes, I was looking for ideas about problems with deadlocks and Django, and well, the title of this song sounds like it could become the theme song for my problem, but unfortunately, the Deadlock Doctor doesn't have any useful ideas either.
Using SELECT FOR UPDATE in Django. That's what it's all about. Because the Django ORM cannot currently generate a SELECT FOR UPDATE, but sometimes you just need it.