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After much tweaking, hand-wringing, and thumping around on staging, django-dynamodb-sessions is ready. The package provides a super-high-scalability session store for those hosting on Amazon's EC2.

This may be useful to you if...

You're wanting to trim your DB size, or reduce the read/write thrashing that happens with DB-backed sessions. You also don't feel like maintaining Redis, or something similar.

With the introduction of Amazon's DynamoDB, we now have a very fast, massively scalable data store that is somebody else's problem to secure, update, and keep running. I've found the response times to be great, especially when combined with the provided cached_dynamodb backend (similar to Django's cached_db backend).

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boto 2.2.2 was released this morning, comprised mostly of bug fixes. Of particular interest is the DynamoDB stabilization that has happened over the last few weeks, although a number of other minor bugs were fixed with the other services. For anyone currently running on older versions, we highly recommend upgrading to boto 2.2.2.

If you run into an problems, have questions, or would like to suggest something, hit #boto on FreeNode IRC, the issue tracker, or the mailing list.

PyATL is having a Jam Session this Tuesday at 7PM, for those in the area and interested. In addition to a presentations for getting started with a few web frameworks (Django, Bottle), there will be some hackage on various projects. I'll be there, looking to help people with, or work on boto.

If you're interested in coming, RSVP on the Meetup page. If you're wanting to hack on, or get help with boto,  shoot a tweet at me and let me know so I can be ready for you.

To top January up, boto 2.2.0 has been released, bringing in, amongst other things, DynamoDB support. See the full release notes for the nitty-gritty. Feedback is actively being sought for the DynamoDB module, so please do open an issue on the tracker if you run into issues or have suggestions.

Also, we're making a ton of progress on the documentation front. If you'd like to help, check out the documentation issues in the tracker, and/or hop in #boto in FreeNode. We're in need of people familiar with various boto sub-modules to step up and contribute their knowledge, or give their respective module's tutorials/api references some love.

There has been a good deal of progress made towards getting boto's documentation up to snuff. We've been working on cleaning up what is there, and have even added some new content (like the new DynamoDB tutorial). However, there is much left to be done.

We would greatly appreciate some outside eyes on this. We'd love to see what you think we could do to improve the boto documentation. Please feel free to visit the boto issue tracker and fire away. If you mention @gtaylor in the body of your issue, I'll be sure to get it, and can label and route it.

For the ambitious

If you're feeling particularly motivated, we'd love to ...