This tutorial explains what RESTful API is and why it's used, followed by a step-by-step guide on how to build a REST API using Django. It covers creating a new Django project, defining models for a TODO app, using REST framework serializers and CRUD views, setting up a Django REST framework router and URLs, and testing the API.
This article covers how to prioritise tasks processing depending on user tier. The described approach uses Celery as an example, but can be replicated with any other background task processing tooling.
Overview of free Django hosting offerings: AWS, Vultr, Google Cloud Platform. Deploy your first Django project for free on any of these Virtual Cloud Server Providers.
The best frontend framework to use with Django, including options such as jQuery, AlpineJS, React, and NextJS. Pros and cons of each framework and recommendations on how to deploy them separately when scaling the team or project.
Web servers for Django application. Comparing popular Nginx server and newer, but promising Caddy server. Discussing pros and cons. In addition, examples of virtual host configuration for both Caddy and Nginx.
Django and Express.js are both popular frameworks for building web applications, with different strengths and weaknesses. Django is great for complex web apps with advanced features, while Express.js is best for real-time applications.
How to rate limit execution of Celery tasks in a reliable way. Throttle calls to 3rd party API via Celery Tasks.
Deep dive into differences between Celery Groups and Chords. In this tutorial, you will see when callbacks are called for groups and chords, how the hard-fail chord behaves to see celery chord error callback. You will also see how tasks retry inside groups and chords.
Send Django application logs to Centralized CloudWatch. This enables you to have a better view of logs, search and filter logs. Every container gets its own log stream.
shared_task is a decorator that makes a function – a celery task. Its primary purpose is for library developers because it doesn't require Celery App instance, but it is convenient for everyone. See params and examples of how to use it.
Flower is the monitoring and administration tool for Celery. Learn how to setup in local development, how to secure it with BASIC_AUTH and how to deploy it in a production/staging environment in Appliku
There are two ways to bulk update your Django model instances depending on the requirements. One is to save multiple objects using .bulk_update() and another is to use QuerySet.update() method.
If you have a lot of objects to save in database you may want to create them using .bulk_create method to make it faster. This will ignore pre and post save signals.
How to work with multiple queues in Celery, why you need it and how to set it up. Tutorial includes file processing and DNS lookups for domains of email addresses. Also, docker-compose.yml is covered for local development.
Learn how to use the Celery task to generate data for a Django view that is taking too long to respond.
Learn how to create a chat application with Django channels and deploy it in production without learning about DevOps!
How to implement JWT Authentication with Django REST Framework, add logout views and invalidate all tokens for the current user.
Database is the main auxiliary service needed for running your Django Project. How to create AWS RDS Postgres Database and connect to Django.