First, let me get this out of the way: this is not a Django vs Phoenix post. We at Cheesecake Labs believe polyglotism is good; it gives us options. Since the beginning, we’ve mostly been a Django shop for backend services and will continue to be for many... (more…)

Cropping images is a fairly common use case in a Web application. For example, some applications let you upload aprofile picture. In addition, it usually als... (more…)

Worry-free Postgres for SaaS. Built to scale out. Citus is offered as a database service, on-prem, & open source. So you can focus on your app—not your database. (more…)

Introduction This article is an extension to a previous article titled, Recursive Model Relationships in Django, which demonstrated a way to utilize the bare-bones Django capabilities to define database-backed Classes that model a common use-case for a re... (more…)

Understand GROUP BY in Django ORM by comparing QuerySets and SQL side by side. If SQL is where you are most comfortable, this is the Django GROUP BY tutorial for you. (more…)