Deployment Checklist - Building SaaS with Python and Django #168

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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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SendGrid Outbound - Building SaaS with Python and Django #169

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