Django

Modern software development has a strong focus on continuously delivering new code, and many businesses do not have the luxury to ship code on an infrequent schedule. How can an engineering team manage this speed of development and produce a quality product? One invaluable tool to achieve this goal is feature flags. Learn more about what feature flags are and how they work.

In order to add search functionality on a budget for College Conductor, I incorporated the text searching capabilities of the PostgreSQL module available to Django 1.10. This post covers features and limitations of PostgreSQL search.

Rollbar provides some excellent middleware that makes setup a snap for a Django application. But what if you’re running Celery with your Django application too? There are a few bumps in the road that I’ll explain how to resolve.

If you use Django REST Framework and the DRF JSON API extension, you may want to learn how to sideload extra resources to save on network requests of commonly paired models. We will explore the extra settings required to make that happen.