Fallback Objects and Responses in Django — A few ways to implement them — Optimizing Django, Part 7 When you serve objects in Django, sometimes you want to serve some sort of default data in the event that the object does not exist. This could come about for a variety of reasons: Maybe you just need to mock a response for your downstream clients while you work on…

If you’re using AWS (like I do on a regular basis), you’re probably familiar with AWS’s Kinesis queue service. According to Amazon’s website, “Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is a scalable and durable real-time data streaming service that can continuously capture gigabytes of data per second from hundreds of thousands of…

Note: In case it isn’t obvious already, big plot spoilers ahead, so you’ve been warned! When it comes to Disney movies… actually, when it comes to most movies, I’m usually late to the party, preferring to wait for the reviews to come out, or until friends recommend them to me. …

If you’re here, you might have heard of Elasticsearch, and maybe you want to know why you would prefer Elasticsearch to retrieve documents over, say, a plain SQL database. Elasticsearch (or ES in short) is easily scaled up to handle massive amounts of documents, and offers a wide range of…

As I sit at my (home) office desk, writing this article between bouts of work, I consider myself, strangely enough, grateful for this pandemic. …

Coding quizzes are touted as a staple of developer interviews, ostensibly to filter out the silver from the dross, sift the wheat from the chaff. For interviewers, coding quizzes represent a cheap, readily available assessment of prospective job-seekers’ programming abilities. …

So far in this series, we’ve covered tips and tricks to reduce your SQL footprint in various parts of your Django server. For example, we’ve dealt with the n+1 problem, removed unnecessary SQL counts in our admin list page, and fixed up otherwise unusable Django admin pages that show data…

This issue is quite notorious among Django Rest Framework users, so it’s always worth getting refreshed on it. …

In the previous entry of Optimizing Django, we covered one way to reduce our SQL footprint when using the Django admin at a minor cost of not rendering the correct object count in the table. However, even with this we can still run into situations where the Django admin becomes…