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In this post I will show you how to set up API pagination in Flask, thanks primarily to Flask-SqlAlchemy's paginate method. Our goal is to use a URL like this: /v1/magazines?page=1&per-page=50 to generate JSON results…

I recently took a course with Uncle Bob Martin of Clean Coders. I have long believed that clean code provides the foundation that makes your web site run well. Without clean code, your web site…

Have you ever logged into Heroku to see a short stretch of request failures, high response times, and H12 Request Timeout errors? The first thing that comes to mind is 'something is wrong with Heroku!'.…

In this post I want to share how I use Performance Insights to proactively improve database performance for Django web applications. For those not familiar, Performance Insights is a tool within Amazon's Relational Database Service…

Python 2 has been marked as EOL as of January 1, 2020, largely due to it's less than ideal string handling methods. If you haven't migrated your code from Python 2 to Python 3 yet,…

Here are 10 best practices I employ to keep Django and Flask web applications running in tip top shape. 1. Use managed services I have a strong opinion on this one. If you do not…

According to the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP), SQL injection is the #1 security threat to web applications. SQL injection attempts occur often. You can recognize them in your logs because they look like…