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From Beginner to Software Engineering Manager - Raymond Traylor

Nov. 10, 2021 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]

Raymond is a software engineering manager at Crayon.co. We discuss learning to program as an adult, his entrepreneurial journey, and making the switch from developer to team manager.

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Command Your App

Nov. 4, 2021 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]

In the last Understand Django article, we dug into file management. We saw how Django handles user uploaded files and how to deal with them safely. With this article, you’ll learn about commands. Commands are the way to execute scripts that interact with your Django app. We’ll see built-in commands and how to build your own. From Browser To DjangoURLs Lead The WayViews On ViewsTemplates For User InterfacesUser Interaction With FormsStore Data With ModelsAdminister All The ThingsAnat…

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Working With django-htmx - Building SaaS with Python and Django #119

Nov. 4, 2021 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]

In this episode, I added django-htmx to help finish off a bulk task deletion feature for my homeschool app. We explored the features that are available in django-htmx, and I showed how to add django-htmx to my project and fully integrate the package.

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Working With django-htmx - Building SaaS #119

Nov. 4, 2021 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]

In this episode, I added django-htmx to help finish off a bulk task deletion feature for my homeschool app. We explored the features that are available in django-htmx, and I showed how to add django-htmx to my project and fully integrate the package.

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Mastering Django - Nigel George

Oct. 27, 2021 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]

Nigel is the author of the books Mastering Django and Build a Website with Django 3. He also maintains the website djangobook.com. We discuss teaching Django to newcomers, print vs video, testing, and more.

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Improving Code Confidently with Test-Driven Development

Oct. 21, 2021 » TestDriven.io » [Archived Version]

Looks at an example of how Test-Driven Development improves code quality.

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Bulk Delete Template - Building SaaS with Python and Django #118

Oct. 21, 2021 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]

In this episode, I worked on the bulk delete template that users will see when deleting tasks within the homeschool app.

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Bulk Delete Template - Building SaaS #118

Oct. 21, 2021 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]

In this episode, I worked on the bulk delete template that users will see when deleting tasks within the homeschool app.

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Debugging a Containerized Django App in VS Code

Oct. 20, 2021 » TestDriven.io » [Archived Version]

In this tutorial, we'll show you how to configure Visual Studio Code (VS Code) to debug a Django app running inside of Docker.

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A tale of performance — ECS, boto3 & IAM

Oct. 20, 2021 » Instawork Engineering » [Archived Version]

A tale of performance — ECS, Boto3 & IAMWhile going through NewRelic and looking at some of the worst offenders in terms of performance, we discovered some calls to S3 that were taking over 5000ms❗️This was alarming as our SLA for API/View response times was 250ms, and these network calls are destroying our KPIs. Through a series of experiments and iterations, we managed to bring the S3 access times down to 7ms, and learned some fascinating things about configuring Boto3 sessions and assign…

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