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Building an OCR service with Amazon Textract and AWS Lambda
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) automates extracting text from visual assets such as PDFs and images. This tutorial teaches how to use Amazon Textract and AWS Lambda to build an OCR service.
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By Muhammed Ali
- Oct 13, 2022
Job Queues and Workers in Django
Job queues are a powerful tool for processing background work in your Django applications. This article teaches about job queues and workers—and how to implement them with Django Q and Celery.
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By Muhammed Ali
- Oct 6, 2022
Building a Realtime Chat App with Django Channels and WebSockets
Building stateful web applications can be tricky, unless you use a framework, of course—Django to the rescue! In this article, learn how to build a realtime chat app using Django Channels and WebSockets.
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By Muhammed Ali
- Sep 22, 2022
Working with PDFs in Python
Generating PDFs is a rite of passage for every developer. In this article, Giridhar Talla teaches us how to use Python to work with PDF files using two common libraries: fpdf and pypdf2.
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By Giridhar Talla
- Sep 1, 2022
Automating Django Tests with Github Actions
Automating your test suite helps get your code to production faster. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to write unit tests for Django and run them with GitHub Actions.
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By Muhammed Ali
- Aug 18, 2022
Logging in Python
Logging is a valuable tool for performance, monitoring, and debugging. This article will teach you best practices for logging in a Python application.
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By Ravgeet Dhillon
- Aug 4, 2022
Managing User Permissions in Django
Learn how to create and manage user permissions in your Django apps.
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By Muhammed Ali
- Jul 21, 2022
Memory Management in Python
Understanding memory management is a superpower that will help you design memory-efficient applications and make it easier to debug memory issues. Join Rupesh Mishra for a deep dive into the internals of CPython.
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By Rupesh Mishra
- Jun 30, 2022
Everything You Need to Know About Caching in Django
Caching is essential for high-performance web apps; luckily, Python and Django provide excellent tools to help. In this article, Muhammed Ali walks through some popular caching techniques.
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By Muhammed Ali
- Jun 16, 2022
How to Add Exception Monitoring to FastAPI
FastAPI is a high-performance web framework for building APIs with Python that has been growing in popularity. In this article, Stefano Frassetto shows us how to set up error monitoring for a FastAPI app using Honeybadger.
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By Stefano Frassetto
- Nov 22, 2021
Understanding Object Instantiation and Metaclasses in Python
If you're coming to Python from another language, it's normal to feel a little confused about object instantiation and inheritance - especially when people start talking about "metaclasses." In this article, Rupesh Mishra explains how instantiation, inheritance, and - yes - even metaclasses work in Python.
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By Rupesh Mishra
- Nov 25, 2020
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