Ren and Stimpy
[update: This post has been corrected, thanks to my commenters for your feedback] Every Django management command gets the verbosity option for free. You may recognize this: optional arguments: -h, –help show this help message and exit -v {0,1,2,3}, –verbosity {0,1,2,3} Verbosity level; 0=minimal output, 1=normal output, 2=verbose output, 3=very verbose output We rarely use…
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When building high performance Django sites, keeping the number of queries down is essential. And just like controlling technical debt and maintaining test coverage, being successful means making monitoring queries a natural part of your workflow. If your momentum has to be stopped to examine database queries, you’re not going to do it. The solution…
Read More Check yo queries before you wreck yo siteI’ve been learning Ansible off and on and off for the past year. I have so many complaints, but I still think it’s the least worst provisioning system out there. It’s online at crccheck.github.io/fuckingansible/, but I’ve also embedded it below: I’d go more into Ansible, just just thinking about it make me so angry. So…
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I’ve been interested in Ansible for a long time now, and thanks to my coworker’s expertise, I’ve been able to get my feet wet. My main barrier has been finding a way to run playbooks. For my first attempt at learning Ansible, I tried running it locally using `ansible_connection=local`. But I found that running it…
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Tips n’ tricks I’ve picked up over the years for managing technical debt, specifically for large Django projects.
Read More Managing Technical Debt in Django ProjectsAt PyCon 2014, I learned about a package called “needle” from Julien Phalip’s talk, Advanced techniques for Web functional testing. When I tried using it with a Django project, I immediately ran into problems. The answer turned out to be “ignore the documentation”.
Read More How to Ignore the Needle DocsSo tonight I decided I’ve been putting it off far enough, and started my first Sphinx documentation project. Read The Docs’s Getting Started guide wasn’t bad, but it really bothered me that there wasn’t a good way to autobuild the docs.
Read More Autobuilding Sphinx Docs With inotifyI’m usually very hesitant to use PostGIS because it makes testing more difficult. Instead of an in-memory sqlite database, you have to spin up and down a database instead. I decided to do it anyways, and then I forgot I had Travis CI on this project and every commit emailed me a reminder of my…
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