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django no. 007

Django Kafka Integration

Django Kafka Integration using Faust.

2 min
devops no. 006

Setting up OpenTelemetry in Django gUnicorn ASGI

Setup OpenTelemetry for Django running on gUnicorn ASGI.

3 min
devops no. 005

Reducing our Deployment times by 87%

Leveraging github actions by using state to determine whether to build a dockerimage or not.

2 min
devops no. 004

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

2 min
tech no. 003

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

2 min
devops no. 002

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

3 min
django no. 001

Django Bulk Save

Using bulk_create? You could switch to copy_from if your usecase fits.

2 min