Engineering
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…
Introduction or Why You Should Try a Bot (you may skip it if you already know what to do with your bot) Bots are everywhere. It seems that only yesterday we did not even know about their existence; now we can barely imagine our life without them. They’ve become…
Testing React components may be challenging for beginners and experienced developers who have already worked with tests. It may be interesting to compare your own approaches with the ones we use in our project. In order to cover the codebase, you have to know which components must be tested and…
Development of products with Django framework is usually easy and straightforward; great documentation, many tools out of the box, plenty of open source libraries and big community. Django ORM takes full control about SQL layer protecting you from mistakes, and underlying details of queries so you can spend more time…
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…
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