<p>In 2014 Yann Malet and I (with the help of the rest of the team here) wrote a book about building and scaling Django websites. It was the culmination of things we’d learned from, at the time, close to a …</p>
<p>Our clients come to us with a variety of existing internal teams. Sometimes we work with UI designers or brand-focused graphic designers who deliver pixel-perfect mockups. Other times the stakeholders will describe what their goals are, and we’ll be responsible …</p>
<p>As you start scaling an application out horizontally (adding more servers/instances), you may run into a problem that requires</p><p>distributed locking</p><p>. That’s a fancy term, but the concept is simple. Sometimes you have to be sure that when a …</p>
<p>I’ve been working quite a bit lately on streamlining Lincoln Loop’s standard deployment systems. One thorn we’ve always had is how to handle application configuration.</p><p>In the past, we would have our configuration management system write the configuration out to …</p>
<p>Two of the biggest benefits</p><p>pipenv</p><p>and</p><p>poetry</p><p>are dependency locking and hash checking. Dependency locking means you can specify the direct dependencies your code requires, for example,</p><p>celery==4.4.*</p><p>and the tooling will lock, not only</p><p>celery</p><p>to a specific …</p>
<p>Consider a “white labeled” app where a CMS admin can customize the design of their public-facing dashboard. The developer is tasked with saving a handful of user-populated values to the database. Colors, fonts, and perhaps a background image or two …</p>
<p>In</p><p>a previous post</p><p>, we showed how to use</p><p>shiv</p><p>to bundle a Django project into a single file for distribution and deployment. Running a large Python project as a single file feels like magic – which is great …</p>
<p>This post covers portions of my talk,</p><p>Containerless Django</p><p>, from DjangoCon US 2018.</p><p>Deploying Python has improved significantly since I started working with it over a decade ago. We have virtualenv, pip, wheels, package hash verification, and</p><p>lock</p><p>files …</p>
<p>Most of the Django projects I work with take advantage of</p><p>django.contrib.auth</p><p>. It manages
users and groups and is tightly coupled with</p><p>django.contrib.admin</p><p>. In this post, we are going to
explore how it resists a potential attacker.</p><p>The …</p>
<p>Our venerable IRC logger,</p><p>BotBot.me</p><p>logged its first lines in the summer of 2012 . Since then, it has logged over 100 million lines for more than 400 IRC channels, primarily on the Freenode and Mozilla networks. Despite the rise …</p>
