Django Test Improvement Speed

Testing in software development is a tedious task, and some programmers skip it. But many start to do the right thing from the beginning, Test Driven Development (TDD) movement make software developer more aware on delivering properly tested battle proven software. I also using TDD with my Django development. One of factor when your test getting more and more in quantity, the test running slow as the test increased as your software getting more...

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Upgrading Django-1-6 to 1-7 part 2

This is part 2 of upgrading Django-1.6 to Django-1.7 journey. For part 1 you can go Here. First error was my application using a module that was deprecated since Django-1.6 which already give me warning to fix it, but i ignore it. And i remember that, so i remove it and update with other lib. The lib i use was django.utils.simplejson. from django.utils import simplejson  I change it to using json lib. import json Next is the...

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Upgrading Django-1-6 to 1-7 part 1

Currently Django already in version 1.9 the latest. And my Django app developed on Django version 1.6 since my last update. As the support and update will not delivered to version 1.6, better to upgrade it to the next version, which is 1.7 . In upgrading a Python web framework like Django, the path not easy especially if you already build and using many library. Some will support the new version, some just not available for the new version of...

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Postgresql Database basic Tune up

Postgresql is a robust database. it can server thousand of request per minute, if tune properly. Some basic config you can do for tune the database are documented below. Memory use : shared_buffers = 2GB # RAM/4 up to 8 GB work_mem = 32MB #Non shared memory use for sort , etc # 8 MB to 32 Mb: web # 128MB to 1 GB: reporting # limit : Ram/(max_connection/2) effetive_cache_sie = 6GB # 3/4 of RAM wal_buffers = 64Mb # just set it maintenance_work_mem...

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