Est. MMXXVI A Field Journal of Systems & Summits JULY 2026 · Nº 07
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Django Kafka Integration
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Django Kafka Integration

Django Kafka Integration using Faust.

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devops Nº 04
Moving from AWS Loadbalancers to Nginx

Moving from AWS Loadbalancers to Nginx

We run a k8s cluster for our healthcare EMR application. At the time, we only had one public facing service, so we used a Kubernetes Service of Type LoadBalancer. resource "kubernetes_service" "django" { metadata { name = "django" namespace = kubernetes_namespace.app_namespace.metadata[0].name annotations = tomap( { "service.beta.kubernetes.io/aws-load-balancer-ssl-cert" = var.django_acm_arn, "service.beta.kubernetes.io/aws-load-balancer-ssl-por

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tech Nº 05
Django Bulk Save - 2 Fast 2 Big

Django Bulk Save - 2 Fast 2 Big

Continuing from Django Bulk Save, I wanted to test how would the copy_from function perform when I scale to over a million records. The copy_from scales incredibly well, it took 4 seconds to write 1.6 million rows. The rest of the article strays away from the actual topic. I decided to play around with different CSV libraries and figure out what would be the most efficient library to use when you have a file this large. You'd probably never encounter a scenario where you'd have to parse a mil

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devops Nº 06
Connecting Django to RDS via pgbouncer using IAM auth

Connecting Django to RDS via pgbouncer using IAM auth

Setting up the infra We primarily use a django backend with RDS postgres in a kubernetes cluster for production environments. We were trying to setup an environment which would be HIPAA compliant and secure as well, as well as keep complexity to a minimum in the backend layer.  We decided to go with IAM authentication to connect to RDS for the django application. The tricky part was to figure out how we would add pgbouncer between RDS and django to manage connection pooling issues. We setup a

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