A Guide to Dokku for Monorepo Applications
This guide explains how to deploy a fullstack monorepo application with a private backend API and a public frontend from a single repository on Dokku.
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Cogitate on code alongside Rob Hudson, a software engineer sharing experiences, learnings, and insights on Python, Django, and web development.
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Optimizing Django Docker Builds with Astral’s `uv`
Learn how to speed up and harden your Django Docker builds using Astral’s uv for faster installs, better caching, and reproducible environments.
Obsidian and Git: A Quick Setup Guide for Developers
A streamlined approach to setting up Git version control for your Obsidian vault using SSH authentication.
From pyenv to uv: Streamlining Python Management
A quick guide on transitioning from pyenv to Astral's uv, highlighting its speed, unified workflow, and tips for setting up Python environments efficiently.
The django-csp 4.x refactor
Sharing the journey behind the django-csp 4.0 refactor, exploring the motivations and improvements.
Using Celery's Canvas to Reduce Elasticsearch Index Time
How I leveraged Celery's group and chord primitives to parallelize the indexing process when reindexing data into Elasticsearch for the Firefox Marketplace search backend, reducing the full reindex time from over 40 minutes to under 3 minutes.