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Using Crossing with React-Router

With the version 1.0 release of react-router, the named Route feature was dropped. In earlier versions, you were able to define each Route with a name parameter: <Route path="/account/billing" name="account-billing" /> and link to the RouteHandler via: <Link to="account-billing">Billing</Link> This …
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The uWSGI Swiss Army Knife

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 used features and how you might use them …
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Django Round-Up #34

Featured Django’s Roadmap Based on the results of the community survey, a long-term release roadmap has been put in place. Extra effort was made to ease the upgrade burden on developers and third-party applications. Django Software Foundation announces Diversity Statement …
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Django Round-Up #33

Featured Django Developers Community Survey The Django Core Team wants to know more about how you use Django. Take a few minutes to fill out the survey and help them tailor Django so it meets our needs. Bugfix and Security …
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Speeding Up NPM Installs

I’ve been working on improving our deployment processes as part of the High Performance Django Infrastructure project we’re building out. One consistent pain point is our front-end build system, and particularly, npm installs. For a number of reasons, instead of …
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Loop Letters | Henrik Joreteg

We recently decided to the start a semi weekly written interview series of the humans behind programming, Loop Letters. What motivates these individuals? What sort of team culture are they working in? What hobbies are they good at? What hobbies …
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Fast Immutable Python Deployments

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 (compiler, development headers, etc.). To update to a …
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Django Round-Up #32

Featured Security Advisory: Arbitrary file inclusion through docutils If you are allowing untrusted users to input reStructuredText which later gets passed through docutils , be sure to read this advisory to ensure your application is configured securely. DjangoCon EU Talk …
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Concurrency in Python vs GO

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 is available on YouTube. The gist of the …