Writing on Software Development

How do domain-specific chatbots work? An Overview of Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) Aug 25, 2023

Demystifying and deconstructing Q&A bots that work over your data.

A Codebase That Makes Codebases May 10, 2023

How SaaS Pegasus—a codebase creator for Django projects—works under the hood.

The Essential Django Deployment Guide Nov 28, 2022

Everything you need to know to get your Django app into production.

Modern JavaScript for Django Developers Nov 13, 2020

Working with Django in the modern JavaScript ecosystem without giving up the things that make it great.

Creating a Subscription SaaS Application with Django and Stripe May 22, 2020

Everything you need to know in order to collect your first subscription payment in your Django SaaS.

Building Progress Bars for the Web with Django and Celery Mar 10, 2018

The surprising complexity of making something that is, on its surface, ridiculously simple

When a CTO Decides to Make a Wedding Website Jun 29, 2017

Building an open-source, responsive, Django-powered wedding website and invitation + guest management system with 250+ commits, unit tests and more.

Scaling Code Review Feb 24, 2016

Designing code review systems that scale with your growing team.

Pulling data from CouchDB to a Relational Database made easy with _changes Jun 12, 2011

A step-by-step guide to building a real-time ETL tool on top of CouchDB's _changes feed to get data into another database.