Compare Django hosting options from free tiers to self-hosted VPS. See how Appliku + Hetzner beats Heroku on price while keeping the same git-push simplicity.
Learn how to use the Django createsuperuser command to create an admin superuser. Covers basic usage, custom username/email flags, and non-interactive mode.
Complete guide to Celery Flower monitoring tool: run it with Docker Compose, add basic auth, configure nginx reverse proxy, integrate Prometheus metrics, and deploy to production.
How to use DataTable ServerSide with Django REST Framework. How to display and filter a large dataset using ServerSide mode and achieve great performance.
Complete guide to JWT authentication in Django using djangorestframework-simplejwt. Covers token refresh, blacklisting, custom claims, logout, and all SIMPLE_JWT settings.
Learn how to use the Celery task to generate data for a Django view that is taking too long to respond.
Complete Django Celery tutorial: install Celery with Redis, create background tasks, configure Celery Beat for scheduling, add retry logic, and monitor with Flower.
How to work with multiple queues in Celery, why you need it and how to set it up. Tutorial includes file processing and DNS lookups for domains of email addresses. Also, docker-compose.yml is covered for local development.
If you have a lot of objects to save in database you may want to create them using .bulk_create method to make it faster. This will ignore pre and post save signals.
There are two ways to bulk update your Django model instances depending on the requirements. One is to save multiple objects using .bulk_update() and another is to use QuerySet.update() method.
shared_task is a decorator that makes a function – a celery task. Its primary purpose is for library developers because it doesn't require Celery App instance, but it is convenient for everyone. See params and examples of how to use it.
Master Celery chord and group for parallel Django tasks. Covers chain vs chord, error callbacks with link_error, chord_unlock behavior, and working code examples.
How to rate limit execution of Celery tasks in a reliable way. Throttle calls to 3rd party API via Celery Tasks.
Django and Express.js are both popular frameworks for building web applications, with different strengths and weaknesses. Django is great for complex web apps with advanced features, while Express.js is best for real-time applications.
Web servers for Django application. Comparing popular Nginx server and newer, but promising Caddy server. Discussing pros and cons. In addition, examples of virtual host configuration for both Caddy and Nginx.
The best frontend framework to use with Django, including options such as jQuery, AlpineJS, React, and NextJS. Pros and cons of each framework and recommendations on how to deploy them separately when scaling the team or project.
This article covers how to prioritise tasks processing depending on user tier. The described approach uses Celery as an example, but can be replicated with any other background task processing tooling.
This tutorial explains what RESTful API is and why it's used, followed by a step-by-step guide on how to build a REST API using Django. It covers creating a new Django project, defining models for a TODO app, using REST framework serializers and CRUD views, setting up a Django REST framework router and URLs, and testing the API.
Add Swagger UI and OpenAPI docs to your Django REST Framework API using drf-spectacular. Step-by-step setup with Redoc integration, URL config, and working code examples.
Series of bite-sized topic-based tutorials about unleashing the power of Django Admin
Learn how to deploy a Django app on Hetzner Cloud VPS using Appliku. ARM server setup, Postgres, automatic HTTPS, and git-based deployments — from zero to live in under 15 minutes.
Learn how to create a chat application with Django channels and deploy it in production without learning about DevOps!
How to send email from Django Project via AWS SES, set up tracking of bounces and complaints, and filter bad email addresses to protect email deliverability.
Database is the main auxiliary service needed for running your Django Project. How to create AWS RDS Postgres Database and connect to Django.
How to create AWS S3 bucket, setup CloudFront CDN and setup Django 4.2 to upload files to S3
How to deploy your Django app with Postgres Database on a Lightsail server.
How to deploy a Django application to a Linode server, setup database and see server stats.
How to deploy a Django application to a Azure VM, setup database and see server stats.
How to create a Google Cloud (GCP) VM and deploy a Django project, create a database and access the site via HTTPS.
Learn how to easily deploy a Django Project to Digital Ocean Droplet, setup environment variables, Add databases and have SSL certificate issued.
Step-by-step tutorial on how to create a Wagtail project and deploy it on AWS EC2 and Digital Ocean Droplet.
Step-by-step instructions on setting up an Nginx web server for a Django application on a fresh Ubuntu 20.04 LTS server. Setting up the server environment, creating a Django project, running it with gunicorn, creating a Let's Encrypt certificate, and setting up Nginx as a reverse proxy.
Learn how to set up a Django Docker project with Postgres from scratch. Covers multi-stage Dockerfile builds, health checks, named volumes, and docker-compose.override.yml for dev vs production.
How to create a Flask application with a POST endpoint, create a server on AWS, Digital Ocean and Hetzner and deploy your Flask app.
Learn how to create a FastAPI app with PostgreSQL and deploy it on an AWS EC2 Instance.