All posts in Django

Peter Baumgartner

Aug 11, 2020

Distributed Locking in Django

By Peter Baumgartner

As you start scaling an application out horizontally (adding more servers/instances), you may run into a problem that requires distributed locking. That's a fancy term, but the concept is simple. Sometimes you …

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Peter Baumgartner

Jul 10, 2019

Single-file Python/Django Deployments

By Peter Baumgartner

This post covers portions of my talk, Containerless Django, from DjangoCon US 2018. Deploying Python has improved significantly since I started working with it over a decade ago. We have virtualenv, pip, …

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Yann Malet

Nov 02, 2018

Cracking Django Password Hashes

By Yann Malet

Most of the Django projects I work with take advantage of django.contrib.auth. It manages users and groups and is tightly coupled with django.contrib.admin. In this post, we are going to explore how …

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Peter Baumgartner

Apr 19, 2018

Goodbye manage.py

By Peter Baumgartner

Every Django project starts with a manage.py file in its root. It's a convenience script that allows you to run administrative tasks like Django's included django-admin. In our last post, we discussed …

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Peter Baumgartner

Jan 30, 2018

Using setup.py in Your (Django) Project

By Peter Baumgartner

A client recently asked me why all the Django projects we create have a setup.py in the root of the project. Lots of projects get by just fine without one, so why …

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Peter Baumgartner

Nov 28, 2017

Django Logging, The Right Way

By Peter Baumgartner

Good logging is critical to debugging and troubleshooting problems. Not only is it helpful in local development, but in production it's indispensable. When reviewing logs for an issue, it's rare to hear …

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Peter Baumgartner

Oct 10, 2017

Disabling Error Emails in Django

By Peter Baumgartner

One of Django's nice "batteries included" features is the ability to send emails when an error is encountered. This is a great feature for small sites where minor problems would otherwise go …

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Peter Baumgartner

Aug 15, 2017

Django Patterns: Fat Models and cached_property

By Peter Baumgartner

One of my favorite patterns in Django is the combination of "fat" models and cached_property from django.utils.functional. Fat models are a general MVC concept which encourages pushing logic into methods on your …

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Peter Baumgartner

Jul 18, 2017

Django Anti-Patterns: Signals

By Peter Baumgartner

Django's Signal Dispatcher is a really powerful feature that you should never use. Ok, it has valid use cases, but they may be rarer than you think. First, to dispel a misconception …

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Yann Malet

Nov 30, 2016

Sharing Media Files Without S3

By Yann Malet

Nowadays, it's common to deploy multiple application servers, but it poses a very common problem; How are these application servers going to share the media files contributed by the users? Cloud providers …

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Yann Malet

Aug 25, 2016

Speed Comparison: Putting Pyston and PyPy to the Test

By Yann Malet

The most famous quote to characterize python speed is: It is fast enough I have used this quote many times, and I still believe that it applies to most circumstances if you …

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Dec 11, 2015

Faster Django Sites with PyPy

This post was created as a collaboration between Lincoln Loop and Maciej Fijalkowski from baroquesoftware.com. In the space of web architecture, the prevalent belief states that "database based applications are I/O bound". …

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Peter Baumgartner

Jul 22, 2015

The uWSGI Swiss Army Knife

By Peter Baumgartner

uWSGI is one of those interesting projects that keeps adding features with every new release without becoming totally bloated, slow, and/or unstable. In this post, we'll look at some of its lesser …

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Joni Trythall

Jun 03, 2015

Loop Letters | Tracy Osborn

By Joni Trythall

The following is the second installment of our Loop Letters series, an interview with Tracy Osborn. Tracy is the author of Hello Web App, a book to help designers and non-programmers get …

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Peter Baumgartner

May 22, 2015

Fast Immutable Python Deployments

By Peter Baumgartner

Alternate title: Pip 7 is Awesome, Here's Why A typical Python deployment looks like this: Pave the server, setting up a virtualenv and installing any pre-requisites necessary to build/install the Python requirements …

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Yann Malet

May 05, 2015

Concurrency in Python vs GO

By Yann Malet

At Pycon in Montreal few weeks ago I attended a talk that blew my mind away and got me thinking: Python concurrency from the Ground Up: LIVE! by David Beazley. The video …

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Peter Baumgartner

Mar 27, 2015

High Performance Django Infrastructure Preview

By Peter Baumgartner

One of the most common requests we've heard since releasing our book, High Performance Django is: "Do you have more code/configuration examples?" It's a pretty loaded question because the book covers everything …

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Peter Baumgartner

Jan 21, 2015

Introducing High Performance Django Expert Sessions

By Peter Baumgartner

With the launch of our book, High Performance Django, we’ve received a number of inquiries from people asking for advice, for which the answers are too specific to their application to give …

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Marco Louro

Jan 05, 2015

Integrating Front-end Tools with Your Django Project

By Marco Louro

Front-end tools like Grunt and Gulp are becoming very widespread, and there’s good reason for it. The front-end code is no longer static, CSS pre-processors are the norm, and JavaScript modules such …

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Peter Baumgartner

Oct 01, 2014

Django: From Runserver to Reddit Hugs

By Peter Baumgartner

Last month, I presented High Performance Django: From Runserver to Reddit Hugs at DjangoCon US in Portland. My assertion was that Django, left to its own devices, does not scale. With the …

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