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SendGrid Inbound - Building SaaS with Python and Django #170

In this episode, we worked on the inbound hook to receive email responses from SendGrid using the service’s Inbound Parse feature. We worked through the configuration and addressed the …

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#Cloudflare

SendGrid Outbound - Building SaaS with Python and Django #169

In this episode, we took another step closer to deploying the service online. The primary goal was to make sure that email sending works. I spent a lot of time explaining email configuration …

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Deployment Checklist - Building SaaS with Python and Django #168

In this episode, I added the deployment checklist and improved the security of the app. Then we moved to work to set up the database to use DATABASE_URL and prepare to use Postgres.

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Practical Business Jinja

Inspired by the Practical Business Python blog this Python Frederick meetup will cover how to automate document creation using Python-docx and Jinja.