Eventbrite is comprised of tens of different components – services, databases, tools and more, and running that all on a single virtual machine is fragile. Learn how we used Docker and our own tool “tugboat” to create a development environment where you can rebuild parts at a time, run different subsets of the site depending on the problem, and easily change and add new containers.

Andrew Godwin is a Django core developer and the primary author of both South and the new Django migrations framework. He works as a Senior Software Engineer on Eventbrite’s Architecture team, and has spent much of the past decade making databases do things they were never designed for. In his spare time, he also enjoys archery and flies private planes.