Tutorials, best practices and news on Django, Python and modern web development.
A tested guide to moving a Django project from MySQL to PostgreSQL: the schema and collation differences that bite, pgloader and dumpdata settings that avoid silent data loss, CDC replication for near-zero downtime, sequence resets, verification and a rollback plan.
A webhook is a message one system sends another the moment something happens. How it works, the three webhooks most businesses already rely on, and the signatures, retries and idempotency that keep an order from being missed or charged twice.
Three ways to get live updates into a browser: polling on a timer, server-sent events for one-way pushes, and WebSockets for two-way traffic. How each works, a comparison table, which to pick for real features, and the Django Channels route.