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Last month I had some time to take a closer look at how our website was performing from a pure speed perspective. It’s a pretty simple site, a bit less than 400kb total and very different from that of most …

Featured Security releases issued: 1.8.3, 1.7.9, 1.4.21 A possible denial of service attack related to Django’s session framework was patched. If you’re using a third-party session framework, be sure it’s been updated as well. Django Has a New Admin Theme …

With the version 1.0 release of react-router, the named Route feature was dropped. In earlier versions, you were able to define each Route with a name parameter: <Route path="/account/billing" name="account-billing" /> and link to the RouteHandler via: <Link to="account-billing">Billing</Link> This …

uWSGI is one of those interesting projects that keeps adding features with every new release without becoming totally bloated, slow, and/or unstable. In this post, we'll look at some of its lesser used features and how you might use them …

Featured Django’s Roadmap Based on the results of the community survey, a long-term release roadmap has been put in place. Extra effort was made to ease the upgrade burden on developers and third-party applications. Django Software Foundation announces Diversity Statement …

Featured Django Developers Community Survey The Django Core Team wants to know more about how you use Django. Take a few minutes to fill out the survey and help them tailor Django so it meets our needs. Bugfix and Security …

I've been working on improving our deployment processes as part of the High Performance Django Infrastructure project we're building out. One consistent pain point is our front-end build system, and particularly, npm installs. For a number of reasons, instead of …

The following is the second installment of our Loop Letters series, an interview with Tracy Osborn. Tracy is the author of Hello Web App, a book to help designers and non-programmers get up and running with Python and Django. Tracy …

We recently decided to the start a semi weekly written interview series of the humans behind programming, Loop Letters. What motivates these individuals? What sort of team culture are they working in? What hobbies are they good at? What hobbies …

Alternate title: Pip 7 is Awesome, Here's Why A typical Python deployment looks like this: Pave the server, setting up a virtualenv and installing any pre-requisites necessary to build/install the Python requirements (compiler, development headers, etc.). To update to a …