Tech Insights

<p>On DRF, override to use different serializers for input and output in a same request: </p>

<p>Find bottlenecks by benchmarking your tests with pytest-benchmark </p>

<p>An instant JSON API for your SQLite databases: </p>

<p>Use django-postgres-extra for native upserts, more powerful HStoreField, more signals and indexes with conditions: </p>

<p>Dropbox releases PyAnnotate - auto-generate type annotations for mypy: </p>

<p>If using <code>get_or_create</code> don't forget to make use of <code>defaults</code> parameter</p>

<p>Interesting tool to abstract some git concepts in the command line interface </p>

<p>Best REST overview I could find: </p>

<p>The law of Demeter is an important foundation for OOP </p>

<p>Django will store your dates in UTC if you set USE_TZ=True</p>

<p>If you need to create a fixture based on a single record from the database, you can use <code>django-fixture-magic</code> </p>

<p>Use python freezegun lib to freeze your dates when making tests</p>

<p>Font Face Observer is a fast and simple web font loader. You can use it to load fonts and customise your browser’s font loading behaviour. </p>

<p>webpreview - Extracts OpenGraph, TwitterCard and Schema properties from a webpage </p>

<p>You can use itertools.chain to group different querysets: #itertools.chain</p>

<p>Queries for Postgres Lock Monitoring: </p>

<p>Show database, table and indexes size in Postgres: </p>

<p>statically: compiles a python function with cython using only a decorator - </p>

<p>How to make your code 80 times faster with PyPy: </p>

<p>Postgres SQL Views in Django: </p>

<p>Dramatiq: alternative to Celery and RQ: </p>

<p>Great site to help you easily create nice css animations </p>

<p>The Benefits of CSS Variables: </p>

<p>Use <code>TerminalIPythonApp</code> %lprun to run line_profiler in ipython: #line_profiler</p>