Tech Insights

<p>Engineering Teams Are Just Networks: </p>

<p>PostgreSQL Anonymizer: </p>

<p>How to make Django migrations that add unique fields: </p>

<p>Celery with heavy workloads (TL;DR use RabbitMQ as broker and Redis as result backend): </p>

<p>“There’s a confusion between effectiveness and efficiency that stands between doing the right things and doing things right. <em>There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.”</em> - Peter Drucker </p>

<p>You can run EXPLAIN on a SQL query directly from a Django queryset: </p>

<p>Progressive Delivery: The art of moving fast but with control. </p>

<p>It is basically always the case that the long-term costs of keeping a system working reliably vastly exceed any inconveniences you encounter while building it. Mature and productive developers understand this. Choose Boring Technology: </p>

<p>"There's an underlying rule from evolution that the more specialized a system is, the less adaptable to change it is. Whether it's a bird over-fit to its ecosystem, or a database you're only using for one thing." </p>

<p>Why Every Software Engineering Interview Should Include Ops Questions: </p>

<p>Run less software: </p>

<p>A discussion of the distinctions (and dependencies) between reliability and resilience, and how to build complex systems that perform under strain and surprise. </p>

<p>Impact &amp; UX Research: What is it and how do we know we've achieved it? </p>

<p>Keeping data integrity with Django migrations </p>

<p>How to test the callbacks passed to Django's transaction.on_commit</p>

<p>Twelve-factor processes are stateless and share-nothing. Any data that needs to persist must be stored in a stateful backing service, typically a database. </p>

<p>Holiday Book Recommendations for Engineering Managers, Software Engineers and Product Managers </p>

<p>Content Security Policy Cheat Sheet </p>

<p>Disposability is one of the factors of The Twelve-Factor App: processes are disposable, meaning they can be started or stopped at a moment’s notice. </p>

<p>Export to CSV from PSQL using the copy command </p>

<p>Reliability, constant work, and a good cup of coffee </p>

<p>How to allow for the growth of your engineers: </p>

<p>“Every product team’s number one goal should be to maintain product simplicity.” - </p>

<p>TypeScript for Pythonistas: </p>