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alex

PostgreSQL WAL Archiving with WAL-G and S3: Complete Walkthrough

Posted by alex

A thorough, end-to-end guide for setting up WAL archiving for Postgres using WAL-G in a development environment.

databases

gavin

Using Materialized Views to Implement Efficient Reports in Django

Posted by gavin

Using postgres materialized views within Django to efficiently prepare reports.

django databases

Molly

The Problem with Decision Trackers

Posted by Molly

For project managers, one of the commonalities across industries is decision making. Every project requires a number of decisions, both big and small, that will inevitably come back to bite someone. But it’s usually not the decision itself that causes difficulties-- it’s the lack of clarity on what that decision is. Unfortunately, the seemingly endless supply of decision tracker templates doesn’t actually offer a viable solution.

project management

alex

Exploring Large and Unfamiliar Python Projects in Emacs

Posted by alex

As programmers, we spend much more of our time at work reading code than writing it. Like any skill, exploring large codebases is one that is developed over time with practice. Nothing can replace experience, but there are certain tools that can help improve your workflow significantly.

Python

gavin

Performing an operation at a given average throughput

Posted by gavin

A programming task I've often needed, especially while writing benchmarking code, is to perform an operation at a given number of times per second. For example, I want to see how a queue system performs under a load of 10 messages per second. To do this, I write a script to generate messages at the given rate. What is the correct pattern to ensure it runs at the correct rate, when the time to execute each iteration of the loop is variable, due to differences in how long it takes to construct the message or scheduling delays?

Python

alex

Security In Layers: Preventing XSS Attacks with AWS S3 Direct Upload

Posted by alex

For any any web developer, allowing users to upload files to a service and then serving those files back other users is a great way to open those users and your service up to a whole host of security vulnerabilities. This article will attempt to give some guidelines on a few things to be aware of when hosting user files, and is specifically aimed at using Amazon S3 direct upload.

security

justin

Designing Security

Posted by justin

Everything on the back-end is super-securely encrypted--but how do you know? By sticking to a few simple design guidelines, your secure site with actually feel secure and instill confidence in your visitors.

security design

Molly

Introducing Memorist

Posted by Molly

Fusionbox is proud to announce the beta release of our new decision tracker, Memorist.

project management

alex

Fusionbox at the Assistive Technologies Lab

Posted by alex

Fusionbox took a field trip to the Assistive Technologies Lab at CU Auraria to learn how to better build websites for all users.

gavin

Implementing a semaphore with Django and Postgres

Posted by gavin

Recently I was working on a project that accesses a third-party webservice. The service does not handle concurrency well, and crashes if you send more than a few requests at the same time. To prevent it from getting overloaded, I implemented a semaphore with Postgres and Django.

django databases

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