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How to write an elegant bulk delete Django management command that supports chunking with yaspin

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How to write an elegant bulk delete Django management command that supports chunking with yaspin

When developing with Django, efficiently managing bulk data operations is crucial for maintaining performance and ensuring a smooth user experience. A particularly challenging aspect involves creating a robust bulk delete command. This task becomes even more complex when dealing with large datasets, where deleting records in chunks is necessary to

Use direnv to switch between virtual environments

Use direnv to switch between virtual environments

Direnv is a tool used in software development, particularly beneficial in DevOps practices. Here's a concise overview: Why Direnv? * Functionality: Automates the process of setting and unsetting environment variables. * Scope: Works on a per-directory basis. * Integration: Hooks into your shell; compatible with common shells like bash, zsh, tcsh.

How to Set Up a Private Network with UFW on Ubuntu

How to Set Up a Private Network with UFW on Ubuntu

Scaling your product often means compartmentalizing services into individual Virtual Machines (VMs). This segregation allows different components like databases, caches, and servers to operate within a private network, enhancing efficiency and security. Below, we'll guide you through setting up a private network using UFW (Uncomplicated Firewall) on Ubuntu.

10 common mistakes that Django developers make

10 common mistakes that Django developers make

Django is an open-source web development framework, grounded in the world's most used language Python, that's designed to make building web applications fun, simpler and more structured. Its main attractions lie in its powerful features, like an intuitive and automated admin interface, Object Relational Mapping (ORM)

How to write concise CRUD tests in Django REST Framework

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How to write concise CRUD tests in Django REST Framework

To write tests for Django REST framework's ListCreateAPIView and RetrieveUpdateDestroyAPIView, you will need to do the following: 1. Set up your test environment and create a test case subclassing APITestCase from Django REST framework's test utilities. 2. Define a test method in your test case for

How to delete old log files in Ubuntu

How to delete old log files in Ubuntu

Large traffic means that you will most probably have to clean some old log files from time to time. We often setup a collection of scripts and crontabs to do this but the base of our scripts is always a single line of code. The line below shows you a

Change timezone in Ubuntu Server 22.04

Change timezone in Ubuntu Server 22.04

We often times have to change the timezone on our machines that we are using as our developer machine. Below you will find a few snippets related to how you can make sure that your system has the right timezone. To list timezones you can run timedatectl list-timezones To set

Get started with Parallels and Vagrant on MacOS Ventura

Get started with Parallels and Vagrant on MacOS Ventura

Some of our colleagues use the Mac as their primary machine and the latest Macbooks that come with M1/M2 CPUs are very powerful but as Virtualbox is not fully supported yet some of us use Parallells. With two simple commands you can get started developing on a Macbook with

Create a new database and user in Postgres

Create a new database and user in Postgres

At REPLIQ we tend to use open source solutions for most of our projects. The right tools for the right job. Postgres is a very powerful database that powers services and businesses across the world. Postgres also works well with Django projects. This is a quick way to get started

Top 10 Django third party apps

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Top 10 Django third party apps

We have been developing with Django for a while now and there are some projects that are very handy when developing quick prototypes. We have summarized our top ten favorites in this post. Django Extensions pip install django-extensions This is an amazing collection of small command line scripts and other

A simple and robust structure for your Django REST Framework API (Part 1)

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A simple and robust structure for your Django REST Framework API (Part 1)

After working on more than 40 different Django projects in the last 10 years we have found a sweet spot between speed, simplicity and flexibility. The four core components in building a well structured API with Django REST Framework is stated below 1. Models 2. Serializers 3. APIViews 4. URLs