tech
Everything filed under “tech”, newest first.
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Nº 019 pythonConverting a multipage pdf to tiff
Converting a multipage pdf to tiff
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Nº 017 arduinoFlashing an ESP8266-01
Flashing a ESP8266? Follow this guide written by a beginner for beginners.
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Nº 014 DevOpsAdding Basic Authentication via NGINX in Kubernetes
Basic Auth via NGINX in kubernetes
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Nº 013 djangoDjango Kafka Integration
Django Kafka Integration using Faust.
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Nº 012 DevOpsRouting stuff using traefik/nginx
Using traefik/nginx as a Reverse Proxy.
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Nº 004 techDjango 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
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Nº 003 techStreaming through millions of records trying to match an encrypted field : Java
A year ago I was working on a really tiny part of a large non-consumer facing product (idk what's the correct term). I can't divulge much, I have done a lot of illegal things like calling a politician an idiot on social media, so I don't want to add more to the list. Imagine you ran an ice cream subscription service, and you had a lot of people on the payroll tasked with managing renewals for subscribers. Let's call them agents. You had an online portal for customers to manage/renew their subsc
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Nº 002 DevOpsConnecting 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
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Nº 001 djangoDjango Bulk Save
Using bulk_create? You could switch to copy_from if your usecase fits.