Shipping Django the way I like it

Every Django app I deploy follows the same shape — a wrapper directory holding the code, a sibling virtualenv, and a run/ folder with a gunicorn unix socket.

project/
├── run/        # gunicorn.sock
├── .venv/      # virtualenv
└── code/       # manage.py + settings

nginx talks to gunicorn over the socket — no TCP port juggling. Simple, repeatable, and it scales across every project on the box.