Tech Insights

<p>btilly on HN: "Whatever scale you hit on a single machine, you can probably gain 1-2 orders of magnitude of performance by switching to a faster language and carefully optimizing. If you switch to distributed, you'll LOSE at least an order of magnitude performance due to the overhead of RPCs, but are able to scale indefinitely afterwards." </p>

<p>postgres-checkup – automated PostgreSQL health checks: </p>

<p>An incomplete list of skills senior engineers need, beyond coding: </p>

<p>How to build a webhook receiver in Django </p>

<p>pgbarman - taking an online hot backup of PostgreSQL is now as easy as ordering a good espresso coffee: </p>

<p>django-add-default-value: This django Migration Operation can be used to transfer a Fields default value to the database scheme. </p>

<p>Hasura - Auto-generate GraphQL and REST APIs for your data: </p>

<p>When dealing with csv files, use the builtin csv module to avoid text escape bugs </p>

<p>Image Uploads in Wagtail Forms: </p>

<p>Adding CloudFlare to S3 bucket: </p>

<p>GraphQL has a <code>@deprecated</code> directive for deprecated fields </p>

<p>A brief guide on updating your Makefile to become a self-documented tool, with a list of available commands alongside their short description </p>

<p>Django extension to allow working with 'clusters' of models as a single unit, independently of the database: </p>

<p>Defining privacy tech: </p>

<p>Fast way to enable CORS in Flask servers: </p>

<p>How to Install Multiple Versions of the Same Package in NPM </p>

<p>Django - Deprecate Field: </p>

<p>The <em>destructuring assignment</em> syntax is a JavaScript expression that makes it possible to unpack values from arrays, or properties from objects, into distinct variables. </p>

<p>Top 10 Chrome devtools tips and tricks </p>

<p>Great post about the use of abstractions and scaling products: “Organizations and layers of abstraction” </p>

<p>An open source tool to remove background noise from your mic input </p>

<p>You can have tabs with different user profiles (including cookies, sessions) on Firefox </p>

<p>MIME-types reported by browsers can change depending on the user OS and installed software </p>

<p>Django styleguide used in HackSoft projects: </p>