This is the fourth and final installment of the series breaking down my talk from DjangoConUS 2022. The first entry covered background information about the project, the second was about using Django Rest Framework, and the third was about infrastructure and deployment.

Before diving in, I'd like to emphasize that …

This is the third installment of the series breaking down my talk from DjangoConUS 2022. The first entry covered background information about the project and the second was about using Django Rest Framework.

First, some important context: if you are a devops engineer, or have a lot of experience with …

If you've ended up here from somewhere outside of this blog, and are looking for an exhaustive comparison of these two libraries, I regret to inform you, this isn't that. If you're here for the next installment of the series breaking down my talk from DjangoConUS 2022, welcome back!

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In this post, I'd like to provide the context for the project I'm currently writing about on this blog. I'm also using this as an opportunity to start a series of blog posts breaking down my recent talk from DjangoConUS 2022 about what I learned related to Django while building …

So far in my main project (more on that to come), the only users of the admin have been myself and my cofounder, so I've made us both superusers. Recently, I had a request to allow an instructor to view and update data from their own courses. This would require …

My current set of tools for deploying my application to production includes Packer and Terraform. I didn't write all of the code for the deployments, but I've been over most of it now.

When trying to upgrade my server from Ubuntu 20.01 to 22.01, I ran into some …

This is a short post to tell you to create more bash aliases.

I have had one for my devops setup for a while because I have to set several environment variables to get just about anything done. More recently, though, I set up a few more for my main …

There are a few code formatting tools I like to use in just about any Python (and Django) project: black, isort, and flake8. These all serve slightly different purposes, and there are alternatives to each. A full discussion/comparison of code formatting tools in Python is beyond the scope of …

I found the documentation for presigned URLS on AWS using boto to be insufficient, so here is how I formed the request.

I wanted to have a file private in S3, but expose it to a user for download if they were authorized to access it. I found the easiest …

I am creating a Django application using PostgreSQL (PSQL) for my database and was nearly finished with the API when I discovered some strange behavior. After successfully testing the API in the Django app, I decided to run some basic queries on the database. I received the following error for …