Building Production-Ready APIs with Django REST Framework
Design, secure, and optimise DRF APIs for production — authentication, pagination, throttling, and versioning.
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Deploying Django to AWS EC2 with RDS and S3
Full production deployment on AWS: EC2 for compute, RDS PostgreSQL for the database, and S3 for media file storage.
Django Migrations: Best Practices for Production
How to safely run migrations in production — zero-downtime strategies, rollbacks, and the migrations you should never write.
Free SSL with Let's Encrypt and Certbot for Django + Nginx
Set up HTTPS in under 10 minutes using Certbot, and configure Nginx to auto-redirect HTTP to HTTPS.
Redis Caching with Django: Speed Up Your App 10x
Integrate Redis as Django's cache backend to reduce database queries and serve pages in milliseconds.
Managing Environment Variables and Secrets in Django
Best practices for handling secrets — from python-decouple to Docker secrets — without ever hardcoding credentials.
GitLab CI/CD Pipeline for Django with Docker
Build a complete GitLab CI/CD pipeline that tests, builds a Docker image, and deploys to your server automatically.
Gunicorn + Nginx: The Production Stack for Django
Configure Gunicorn as your WSGI server and Nginx as a reverse proxy to serve Django efficiently in production.
Dockerizing a Django Application from Scratch
Build a production-ready Docker image for Django with multi-stage builds, non-root users, and proper layer caching.
Setting Up PostgreSQL for Django in Production
Step-by-step guide to configuring PostgreSQL with Django, including connection pooling and environment-based settings.