Django Weekly: DjangoWeekly 38 - Stable django deployments without downtime, Video Tutorials and more

This post describes a deployment and maintenance method for Django projects that was designed with scalability in mind. The goal is to push new releases into production at any moment with minimal or no downtime. Upgrades can be performed with unprivileged access to the production server, and rollbacks are possible. I use Gunicorn, Fabric and Supervisord in the examples.

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A total of 62 free videos on Django web framework.

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This tutorial is walk-through of how to deploy a Django application to AWS Elastic Beanstalk (with Postgres).

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Custom class-based validators do not seem to be very common in Django. But if you still need one - here is some info you may find useful building your very first class-based validator. Django docs cover this topic good enough for some users, but some people may find it not enough. I had to look through built-in class validators source code to understand it's concept.

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The almighty Google API might be hard to understand. This is a guide for a fast and easy approach to get some data from your Google Apps in Python and/or Django.

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I decided to add some tests to my application, so that my Travis CI could actually be useful.

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Python dictionaries with recursive dot notation access.

A Django template for using Flask for the frontend, Django for the backend.

The easy way of handling Django secrets.

Ever wanted to know what version of Django someone else is running?