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Django Best Practices How to Create Custom Password Validators in Django Django comes with basic password validators but you can also create your own if you have more specific needs. Here are some tips for doing that... Read More Anthony Bosio | April 30, 2018
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High Availability and Horizontal Scaling with Celery Long running tasks can be put on a Celery job queue to help decouple and run asynchronous work loads, and therefore strengthen the main program... Read More Calvin Hendryx-Parker | February 1, 2017
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Write Better Programs with pytest Getting a set of fast running tests can dramatically speed up the development process as well as ensure developers don't introduce regressions... Read More Calvin Hendryx-Parker | September 26, 2016
High Availability (HA), Load Balancing & Failover Keeping websites and web applications up and running can be critical. It is best to look at all options very closely before choosing one... Read More Calvin Hendryx-Parker | September 16, 2016
Native Backup Solutions vs Snapshots Backups are a necessity, whether they are done via the database's native backup technology, a snapshot, or dumping to tape. Here's the difference between some common solutions, and tips on how to get started... Read More Calvin Hendryx-Parker | September 7, 2016
A More Flexible and Intuitive Python-Based LDAP Library A new, pure Python LDAP library is out and easier to work with… Read More Rob McBroom | August 30, 2016
Cool Factor Mighty Microbits Microbits, powered by MicroPython, are exciting pieces of hardware with endless possibilities... Read More Calvin Hendryx-Parker | August 19, 2016
Managing complex Bacula configurations with YAML, Jinja and Python How to make sure all servers are backed up, and do so in a way to avoid a performance hit… Read More Calvin Hendryx-Parker | August 12, 2016
Cloud Repeatable Development Environment with Vagrant Vagrant is a tool to get developers set up quickly and easily on a project. It makes sure the virtual machine includes all the dependencies as they should be, and allows developers to use their own editing tools as they work on a project... Read More Calvin Hendryx-Parker | August 8, 2016
