Tech

I’m not actively writing about technical topics anymore, but you can find an archive of posts, primarily about Django and distributed systems, here.

Jan 1, 2021 | Django at Scale in Production
Oct 16, 2020 | An Introduction to the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)
Oct 11, 2020 | What does ‘Idempotent’ mean in software?
Oct 9, 2020 | Thinking & Building Distributed First
Sep 29, 2020 | Django Rest Framework - Writing Serializers that Differ From Your Internal Data Model
Sep 25, 2020 | Setting, Deleting, and Accessing Cookies in Django (+ some common gotchas!)
Jul 28, 2020 | Using Connection Strings to Connect to Cloud Services
Jul 10, 2020 | Django Model Definitions: How They Differ From the Generated Database Schema
May 28, 2020 | Tuples in Python - why to use them (and how you might create them on accident!)
May 9, 2020 | Django: making backfills in migrations backward compatible
May 2, 2020 | Distributed Systems: an introduction to Publish-Subscribe (pub/sub)
Apr 24, 2020 | Python’s NotImplementedError for Documenting Inheritance
Apr 4, 2020 | Exceptions in Python: catching, raising, customizing, and logging
Feb 18, 2020 | Role-Based Access Control (RBAC): Permissions vs. Roles
Feb 2, 2020 | Change Data Capture (CDC) vs. Business Event Pipelines
Jan 20, 2020 | Understanding Temp Files in Postgres
Jan 11, 2020 | Comparisons in Python: the difference between ‘is’ and ‘==’
Jan 1, 2020 | Django’s auto_now and auto_now_add fields for auditing creation and modification timestamps
Dec 7, 2019 | Serialization, JSON, and Distributed Systems
Aug 23, 2019 | Python: using getattr for properties and methods
Aug 22, 2019 | Custom Celery Tasks Including the Enqueuing Requestid to a Taskid in Django
Aug 4, 2019 | Character Encoding Inernet
Dec 8, 2018 | Adding Custom Views and Templates to Django Admin
Nov 25, 2018 | Migrating Rabbitmq Kombu
Sep 29, 2018 | Sending Notifications to a Django Application Using WebSockets
Jul 27, 2018 | Favorite Pycharm Hotkeys!
Jul 12, 2018 | Locking Users Out After Invalid Login Attempts: Django & a Cache
Apr 30, 2018 | Django: Adding a Custom Attribute to All Log Lines
Mar 17, 2018 | No Downtime Deployments: Changing the Signature of a Background Task
Feb 1, 2018 | Django: Using get_or_create to prevent race conditions
Jan 1, 2018 | Adding a Unique Together Constraint Concurrently
Dec 19, 2017 | Debugging Background Tasks Inside Loops and Transactions
Sep 27, 2017 | Building a Remote Procedural Call (RPC) Endpoint With the Django Rest Framework
Jun 28, 2017 | Django Adding an Intermediate Model to a Manytomany Field Without One
Mar 25, 2017 | Using Zeep to Make Soap Requests in Python
Feb 12, 2017 | Enumerating in Python for the Rubyist
Feb 4, 2017 | Working in Forms With Django
Dec 21, 2016 | Load Testing With Locust
Dec 3, 2016 | The Tale of a PR Review and the Evolution of a Database Query
Nov 26, 2016 | Using Factoryboy With Django Tests
Nov 12, 2016 | Working with Urls in Python & Django
Nov 6, 2016 | Changing Your Terminals Appearance Based on Environment Variables
Oct 1, 2016 | Signals in Django
Sep 18, 2016 | Django, Databases, and Decorators: Routing Requests to Different Databases
Jun 7, 2016 | Iterating on Database Architecture
Mar 6, 2016 | Playing With Time in Ruby and Javascript
Feb 18, 2016 | Transitioning From Sinatra to Rails
Jan 4, 2016 | Building a Server in Ruby
Dec 23, 2015 | Reading, Writing & Accessing
Dec 8, 2015 | Passing Blocks as Arguments
Heroku Pipelines: changing the auto-deploy branch from master to main