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Episode 13 - Does My Site Work?

June 1, 2021 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]

On this episode, we will discuss how you can verify that your site works and continues to work. We’re digging into automated testing and how to write tests for your Django apps. Listen at djangoriffs.com or with the player below. Last Episode On the last episode, our focus was on static files. Static files are vital to your application, but they have little to do with Python code. We saw what they are and what they do.

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Caktus Group - Tobias McNulty & Colin Copeland

May 26, 2021 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]

Tobias and Colin are founders at Caktus Group, a Django consulting shop that has been around since 2007. We discuss changes in Django over that time, Tobias’s work on the Django Ops Team, and leveling up junior engineers.

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Dockerizing Django with Postgres, Gunicorn, and Traefik

May 24, 2021 » TestDriven.io » [Archived Version]

This tutorial details how to configure Django to run on Docker along with Postgres, Gunicorn, Traefik, and Let's Encrypt.

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Per-visitor Data With Sessions

May 21, 2021 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]

In the last Understand Django article, we saw what it takes to make your Django project live on the internet. Now, we’ll get back to a more narrow topic and focus on a way Django can store data for visitors to your site. This is the kind of data that doesn’t often fit well into your Django models and is called session data. From Browser To DjangoURLs Lead The WayViews On ViewsTemplates For User InterfacesUser Interaction With FormsStore Data With ModelsAdminister All The ThingsAnatomy Of An App…

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Django London Meetup 2021

May 17, 2021 » Paolo Melchiorre » [Archived Version]

The Django London Meetup group is a social meetup, that hold a gathering the 2nd Tuesday of each month.

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FLOSS and linguistic diversity

May 11, 2021 » Paolo Melchiorre » [Archived Version]

Thoughts on linguistic diversity in FLOSS, arising from the Italian translation of the Django documentation.

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Increase performance via Range Fields in Django Querysets on PostgreSQL

May 4, 2021 » <nezhar/> » [Archived Version]

A brief story from the database optimizations of a Django application that uses PostgreSQL

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Automating Performance Testing in Django

May 1, 2021 » TestDriven.io » [Archived Version]

This post looks at how to set up automated performance tests to uncover and prevent inefficient database queries.

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Django 3.2: Compressed fixtures, fixtures compression

April 5, 2021 » Paolo Melchiorre » [Archived Version]

In the Django 3.2 version just released I contributed with new features related to compressed fixtures and fixtures compression. In this article I have explored the topic and produced some sample benchmarks.

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