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 like Google, Rackspace or Amazon Web Services solve …
This post could have been titled, “How We Use OpenPGP to Protect Our Secrets.” All the use cases illustrated below use a tool called GnuPG to take care of the crypto details for us. GnuPG is a complete and free …
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 throw enough hardware at the problem.
Despite Python …
Building a cluster in the cloud is becoming a mundane step that you have to do several times during the life cycle of a project. There are multiple driving forces behind this fact:
Initial set up
Redundancy
Setting up an …
Let’s Encrypt is a new certificate authority. It is a huge improvement over the manual complex process of acquiring and deploying an HTTPS server. The process is now:
Free
Automatic (no more login to sites, filling forms, concatenating certificates)
This …
Images are everywhere on the web. Whether you’re building a simple blog, a CMS, or a true web application, chances are good that you’ll need to deal with images. Editors, authors, users, etc. expect to be able to upload images …
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Django 1.9 release candidate 1 released
Last month, saw the release of 1.9 RC1 (now official). It’s the first official non-LTS release since
the new release process was formalized
.
Bugfix release issued: 1.8.6
1.8.6 fixes a handful of …
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”. While this might have been true in the …
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Bugfix release issued: 1.8.5
A handlful of bugs in the 1.8 release series have been resolved in the latest release.
Django 1.9 beta 1 released
1.9 brings a lot of new features including password validators, parallel tests, a Postgres …
Our Kickstarter campaign for a companion video series to our book High Performance Django ended today just shy of its target. We consider it a great success!
That’s right… a success. When we started the campaign, our internal goal was …
