Blogs about Back-end web development

This post is an adapted extract from my book Boost Your Django DX, available now. Django requires every change to model fields and meta classes to be reflected in database migrations. This applies even to …

Author’s note: This is a longer piece that starts off with exposition into the nature of the N+1 query problem. If you’re already well familiar with it, you may want to skip my description of …

.NET Blazor has been touted as a revolutionary framework that allows .NET developers to build interactive web applications using C# instead of JavaScript. It's mainly aimed at ASP.NET Core developers who want to build SPA-like …

At the start of 2024, I gave a talk titled "Secrets of the Laravel Team" in which I talk about how Laravel works as a company, how we manage projects and continue to ship the …

As your Laravel application grows, managing security objectives becomes more challenging, especially for small teams or solo developers. Today, Laravel has teamed up with Aikido to provide a seamless solution for securing your Laravel application. …

Once you’ve deployed your web app to prod there is a moment of satisfaction: a brief respite where you can reflect on your hard work. You sit, adoringly refreshing the homepage of www.mysite.com to watch …

Today, I want to write about steps you can take to make your take home test easy to run, and win brownie points with reviewers. I spent a lot of time in the last half …

Signalling allows for applications to be decoupled by allowing designated receivers to be informed when an action has taken place (the signal). Flask and Quart both utilise the excellent Blinker library to support signals and …

On August 2014 I made one of the most difficult choices of my life: I left my home country, my family, my friends and everything I knew to move to the United States. I arrived …

Minimizing gas usage directly impacts the profitability of your MEV bot. In this blog post, we will start with a straightforward but nonoptimal approach for swapping two UniswapV2 pairs and gradually improve it. We will …

How to fix the `SQLSTATE[HY000] [1524] Plugin 'mysql_native_password' is not loaded` errors caused in MySQL 8.4 no longer enabling the `mysql_native_password` plugin by default.

A short introduction to the rdbg/debugger extension for VS Code, plus a guide on how to set it up correctly to debug your Ruby on Rails applications, as well as your RSpec specs. The VS …

While UI testing may seem straightforward at first glance, it can quickly become complex, especially when dealing with various app states. One of the main challenges is preparing the app for different test scenarios.The Issue …

A simple tutorial for OpenID connect using only HTTP requests

This is the last of a series of posts I’m doing as a sort of Python/Django Advent calendar, offering a small tip or piece of information each day from the first Sunday of Advent through …