Apostolos Bessas

Transifex is an open-source localization platform. It helps developers manage the localization process for their software. Especially in the open-source world, localizing the software is very important. This talk will explain briefly what localization is, what are the issues that arise and how Transifex can help projects manage the translation workflow.

Transifex is an open-source localization platform. It is already used by a lot of open-source projects, including fedora and meego, with great success. The talk will focus on explaining what localization is and why it is important. It will also describe how Transifex works and how it can help the developers integrate translations in their workflow and the translators to cooperate better to help with the translations.

Running a web application that is used by people from all over the world means that you cannot afford any downtime. However, the codebase and the database schema constantly evolves, while at the same time hardware failures may happen. The talk will try to present ways that we, at transifex.net, use to deal with the following two issues: - schema changes - hardware failures in order to achieve 100% uptime. The talk will discuss tools that PostgreSQL provides, like functions and triggers, and how they can be used to deal with schema changes and how to setup streaming replication for fail-over.