I’ve added a faceted search engine to this blog, powered by PostgreSQL. It supports regular text search (proper search, not just SQL"like" queries), filter by tag, filter by date, filter ... (more…)

As we have learned in my previous post, there are a lot of benefits in concentrating all the code related with sending emails in one place, creating a base mailer which handles the creation and… (more…)

A deep-dive on XSS exploitations in Django applications, how to find them and how to fix them... (more…)

A simple implementation of basic multi-factor authentication (MFA) functions in Django (phone, text and email) - mwhawkins/django-simplemfa... (more…)

Caching is the most important aspect of scaling along with database indices. It’s not impossible to get up to 99% speed improvements… (more…)