Engineering
Debugging isn’t a new trick – most developers actively use it in their work. Of course, everyone has their own approach to debugging, but I’ve seen too many specialists try to spot bugs using basic things like print instead of actual debugging tools. Or even if they did use…
I bet a fresh job offer will make anyone a bit happier and more self-confident. Still, most of us had at least a single denied CV or failed interview. If this is the case, consider it as a sort of new experience. This article is intended for a person who'd…
If for some reason you have decided to comprehend the asynchronous part of Python, welcome to our “Asyncio How-to”. Note: you can successfully use Python without knowing that asynchronous paradigm even exists. However, if you are interested in how things work under the hood, asyncio is absolutely worth checking. What…
This version has been designated as a long-term support (LTS) release, which means that security and data loss fixes will be applied for at least the next three years. What’s new: The new django.db.models.indexes module contains classes which ease creating database indexes This feature allows creating…
I frequently face a recurring situation when developers receive a task to make a performance optimization on Django. Pretty often they are trying to make it in a wrong way. In this short article I want to shed some light on the common mistakes, and show you the way I'm…
This is an introductory tutorial on Docker containers. By the end of this article, you will know how to use Docker on your local machine. Along with Python, we are going to run Nginx and Redis containers. Those examples assume that you are familiar with the basic concepts of those…
From time to time you have to build some properties for an object and usually those are just a bunch of fields for a model. With django-classifier you may do that in another way. It allows you to create models at start, and set the properties needed from the admin…
This is intro, you may skip it In this tutorial, we’re going to build a very simple bot using Python and deploy it on Heroku server. In upcoming paragraphs, I am going to provide some insights what bots actually are and why it may be interesting for you to…
CI definition and its main goal Continuous Integration (CI) is a software development practice that is based on a frequent integration of the code into a shared repository. Each check-in is then verified by an automated build. The main goal of continuous integration is to identify the problems that may…
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