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September 30, 2022

Heroku Alternatives for Django Apps

Pytest for beginners, Django on K8s, Dockerizing Django, a new Django Chat episode, and more.

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PyScript 2022.09.1 RC2 request for help

The PyScript team is asking for help testing 2022.09.1 RC2.

Reminder: 2022 Django Developers Survey

The survey will run until October 21st. Please take a moment to fill it out! After the survey is over, the aggregated results and anonymized raw data will be published.

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Articles

Heroku Alternatives for Python-based Applications

Since Heroku is discontinuing its free tier November 28, 202 this article covers numerous Heroku alternatives and their pros and cons.

Pytest for Beginners

Not just for beginners, this article covers all the main parts of pytest, including parameterizing, fixtures, temporary files, and even monkeypatching.

Django on K8s

A 7-part series on Django and Kubernetes.

Dockerize a Django, React, and Postgres application with Docker and docker-compose

A relatively concise guide to Dockerizing a website with Django and React.

Will Serving Real HTML Content Make A Website Faster? Let's Experiment!

Some performance comparisons and stats compare rendering HTML and JS rendered websites.

Videos

Preparing for Hacktoberfest with Phoebe Quincy

Hacktoberfest kicks off on October 1st and lasts all month. Python Community News covers what you need to do to prepare your projects and yourself for contributing this year with special guest Phoebe Quincy from Digital Ocean.

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Podcasts

Django Chat #123 - DjangoCon Europe 2022 with Kojo Idrissa

Kojo gave the Keynote at DjangoCon Europe 2022 and is a prolific public speaker. He is a software engineer at RevSys and Lightning Talks Chair at DjangoCon US 2022 as well. We discuss the various contributions to Django and why it's not all about code.

Projects

metametricsinc/django-warrant

Django package that uses AWS Cognito and Warrant to create a Django backend and common views.

adamghill/minestrone

Search, modify, and parse messy HTML with ease.

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