Django 3.0 beta 1 is now available. It represents the second stage in the 3.0 release cycle and is an opportunity for you to try out the changes coming in Django 3.0. (more…)

Whenever you building a site with Django that will have user authentication, it is recommended to create a Custom User Model, before the first migration. Sometimes you forget to do that. In this case you have to follow a strict procedure, which I'll show ... (more…)

In this tutorial we'll detail how to provision a server for a Django project with Ansible.

It occurred to me that Django's ORM could do with a bit of a revamp to make use of recent developments in the Python language. The main area where I think Django's models are missing out is the lack of type hinting (hardly surprising since Django pre-date... (more…)

This post looks at how to set up automated performance tests to uncover and prevent inefficient database queries. (more…)