April 3, 2018 » Instawork Engineering » [Archived Version]
“Birds flying away” by elPadawan / CC BY SAOver the last few months, the Instawork engineering team has been moving our AWS infrastructure from manually deployed EC2 instances to an Elastic Container Service (ECS) cluster managed with CI/CD. The benefit is clear: as our engineering team and traffic grow, automated deployments and auto-scaling free us up from worrying about dev-ops and allow us to focus on product improvements.The core functionality of ECS works really well:We push a new Docker …
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A Brief Intro to Docker for Djangonauts
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A comprehensive guide to Django CBVs - from neophyte to more advanced
Read MoreMarch 12, 2018 » Valentino Gagliardi - Django RSS Feed » [Archived Version]
How to create a Django REST API? How to structure a Django project with React? Here's a practical introduction to Django REST with React. (Django 3)
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How to authenticate with django-rest-auth
Read MoreJan. 28, 2018 » Haki Benita » [Archived Version]
ORMs offer great utility for developers but abstracting access to the database has its costs. Developers who are willing to poke around the database and change some defaults often find that great improvements can be made.
Read MoreJan. 25, 2018 » Thomas Loiret - Random thoughts » [Archived Version]
How to deploy a Django project on Clever Cloud ?
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Django Admin search fields are great, throw a bunch of fields in search_fields and Django will handle the rest. The problem with search field begins when there are too many of them. This is how we replaced Django search with text filters for specific fields, and made Django admin much faster.
Read MoreDec. 21, 2017 » Paolo Melchiorre » [Archived Version]
Article based on my talk about Full-text search in Django with PostgreSQL.
Read MoreDec. 10, 2017 » Haki Benita » [Archived Version]
A few weeks ago we encountered a major performance regression in one of our main admin pages. The page took more than 10 seconds to load (at best) and hit the query execution timeout at worst. When we investigated the issue, we found that the date hierarchy was the cause for most of the time spent loading the admin page. In the article we describe how we significantly improved the performance of Django Admin date hierarchy
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