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Articles tagged with "Python"
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Building an IVR System with Python, Django and Twilio
Last year my team and I worked on a very challenging IVR system. After almost a year in production and thousands of processed transactions, I teamed up with the great people over at the Twilio blog to write an introductory tutorial for developing IVR systems using Django and Twilio IVR.
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- 14 minutes
- Python, Django, ORM, Performance
How "Export to Excel" Almost Killed Our System
Inspired by an actual incident we had in one of our systems caused by an "Export to Excel" functionality implemented in Python, we go through the process of identifying the problem, experimenting and benchmarking different solutions.
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- 12 minutes
- Python, PostgreSQL, Performance
Fastest Way to Load Data Into PostgreSQL Using Python
Explore the best way to import messy data from remote source into PostgreSQL using Python and Psycopg2. The data is big, fetched from a remote source, and needs to be cleaned and transformed.
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- 7 minutes
- Python, Django, Performance
Improve Serialization Performance in Django Rest Framework
When a developer chooses Python, Django, or Django Rest Framework, it's usually not because of its blazing fast performance. All of this doesn't mean performance is not important. As this story taught us, major performance boosts can be gained with just a little attention, and a few small changes.
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How We Replaced Dozens of Test Fixtures With One Simple Function
We had a large codebase and a lot of tests. Unfortunately, a lot of our tests were a relic from when we were using fixtures extensively. In this article, we describe a different approach that reduced the number of fixtures we maintain.
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Working With APIs the Pythonic Way
Communication with external services is an integral part of any modern system. Whether it's a payment service, authentication, analytics or an internal one - systems need to talk to each other. In this short article we are going to implement a module for communicating with a made-up payment gateway, step by step.
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The Best New Feature in unittest You Didn't Know You Need
From time to time I like to read documentation of modules I think I know well. The python documentation is not a pleasant read but sometimes you strike a gem.
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- 3 minutes
- Python, Django, Testing, Performance
Timing Tests in Python For Fun and Profit
Hunting down slow tests by reporting tests that take longer than a certain threshold (Because the first step to better test performance is awareness!)
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Keeping Tests DRY with Class Based Tests In Python
Tests can be a bummer to write but even a bigger nightmare to maintain. When we noticed we are putting off simple tasks just because we were afraid to update some monster test case, we started looking for more creative ways to simplify the process of writing and maintaining tests. In this article I will describe a class based approach to writing tests.