Your Django REST API works, but there is no documentation. Every new developer has to read the source code to understand the endpoints. drf-yasg generates interactive Swagger and ReDoc docs automatically from your views and serializers. TL;DR: Add Swagger and ReDoc interactive documentation to a Django REST Framework API using drf-yasg.Stack: Python, Django, Django REST … Read more
Building a DRF endpoint that accepts Excel uploads and returns a processed Excel file requires handling multipart form data, reading it with pandas, transforming it, and streaming the output file back in the response. Each of those steps has its own failure mode. TL;DR: Build a Django REST Framework API that accepts an Excel file … Read more
Django includes a complete authentication system: user models, sessions, login/logout views, and password hashing. You get it all without installing anything extra. TL;DR: Implement user authentication in Django using the built-in auth system and JWT tokens for DRF.Stack: Python, Django, djangorestframework-jwtLevel: BeginnerReading time: ~7 min Install Configure JWT in settings.py Add login route to urls.py … Read more
Every AWS application eventually needs to persist files: user uploads, generated reports, Lambda artifacts, data exports. S3 is the default answer, and boto3 makes reading and writing to it straightforward from Python. TL;DR: Read and write files to AWS S3 using Python and boto3, including upload, download, and bulk file listing.Stack: Python, boto3, AWS S3Level: … Read more
.NET Core is Microsoft’s cross-platform, open-source runtime for building web APIs, background services, and console apps. This reference covers the patterns that come up in real production applications. TL;DR: A .NET Core reference covering web APIs, dependency injection, Entity Framework Core, authentication with JWT, and Azure deployment.Stack: .NET Core, C#, ASP.NET Core, Entity Framework CoreLevel: … Read more
A Django API serving real-time features needs more than the ORM. Redis handles caching and session storage, Django REST Framework structures the API layer, and Firebase provides real-time push to connected clients. TL;DR: Build a full Django backend combining DRF for REST APIs, Redis for caching, and Firebase for real-time push notifications.Stack: Python, Django, Django … Read more
Direct service-to-service communication works until one service goes down and takes the caller with it. RabbitMQ puts a queue between producers and consumers: the sender publishes a message and moves on, regardless of whether the consumer is ready. TL;DR: Set up RabbitMQ and implement a producer-consumer pattern: publish messages to a queue and process them … Read more