Blogs about Back-end web development

To show the initial, or root, commit* of your repository, use: $ git log --max-parents=0 (*There may be multiple, as we’ll see.) For example, on the Django repository: $ git log --max-parents=0 commit d6ded0e91bcdd2a8f7a221f6a5552a33fe545359 Author: …

One of Go’s best features is not only that it does parallelism well, but that it’s deeply baked in. It’s best exemplified by primitves like goroutines and their dead simple ease of use, but extends …

I had the privilege of attending GopherCon UK last week, and among the many captivating talks, one that stood out to me was "Structured Logging for the Standard Library" presented by Jonathan Amsterdam. The presentation …

Online I’m not known for much more than being a software developer. In real life, I’m obsessed with bags, specifically backpacks. I’ve owned a lot of bags over the years, and I’ve got a lot …

AWS has been providing certificates from the rds-ca-2019 Certificate Authority, but these certificates are due to expire in August 2024. If you are running an RDS instance using this Certificate Authority, it must be updated …

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 …

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 …

Back in November 2022 I was browsign the then Twittosphere (now Exosphere?) when I ran across an interesting tweet from @manishrjain: What is happening? Caddy is 2x outperforming NGINX in my reverse proxy test 🚀 …

Composer 2.4 comes with a feature that it prompts during a `composer require` to install packages as `require-dev` dependencies when certain keywords are present. Development tools and libraries now can make use of this feature …

In this article, I break down the difference between system specs and feature specs in RSpec and Rails, and walk you through refactoring your feature specs to system specs.

There have been countless approaches to cross-platform development over the years. A long time ago Java promised to "write once, run everywhere". It's a promise that was mostly left unfulfilled.Don't get me wrong, there are …

Integration of jquery DataTables with Django

This is the second in a series of posts I intend to write about how to build, deploy, and manage Python applications in as boring a way as possible. In the first post in the …