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Github's Awesome Repository Traffic Analytics

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As someone that loves all types of metrics I was really glad to have discovered Github’s traffic analytics. They’ve been around for a while, but I never knew about them and I wanted to share an introduction to the analytics.


Django A/B testing with Google Optimize

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Struggling to determine your product’s future path? A/B testing helps you decide if you should take the road less traveled by.

To understand your users and their needs, start by creating two product variations and collecting data points. Google Optimize …


Monitoring Kubernetes InitContainers with Prometheus

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Kubernetes InitContainers are a neat way to run arbitrary code before your container starts. It ensures that certain pre-conditions are met before your app is up and running. For example it allows you to:

  • run database migrations with Django …

6 ways to speed up your CI

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Waiting for CI to finish slows down development and can be extremely annoying, especially when CI fails and you have to run it again. Let’s take a look into approaches on how to speed up your CI and minimize the …


Recipes when building a headless CMS with Wagtail's API

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Recently I built a headless CMS using Wagtail’s API as a backend with NextJS/React/Redux as a frontend. Building the API I ran into some small issues with Image URL data, the API representation of snippets and creating a fully customized …


Creating Group Webhooks with Templates for Gitlab CI

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Gitlab stores a vast majority of their functionality into their paid packages. Group webhooks is one of them and if your using a group runner, the group webhook becomes sought after. This is easily achievable without using a paid plan …


Kickstarting Infrastructure for Django Applications with Terraform

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When creating Django applications or using cookiecutters as Django Cookiecutter you will have by default a number of dependencies that will be needed to be created as a S3 bucket, a Postgres Database and a Mailgun domain.


Creating templates for Gitlab CI Jobs

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Writing Gitlab CI templates becomes repetitive when you have similar applications running the same jobs. If a change to a job is needed it will be most likely needed to do the same change in every repository. On top of …