My Infrastructure as Code Rosetta Stone - Deploying the same web application on AWS ECS Fargate with CDK, Terraform and Pulumi
I wrote three reusable infrastructure as code libraries to develop high-level abstractions for deploying containerized web apps on AWS ECS. This article will provide an overview of my experience working with CDK, Terraform and Pulumi and will cover how I use these libraries in automated infrastructure deployment pipelines using GitHub Actions
Last updated January 7, 2023
Setting up ad hoc development environments for Django applications with AWS ECS, Terraform and GitHub Actions
This article will show how software development teams can build on-demand environments for dog-food testing, quality review, internal and external demos and other use cases that require short-lived but feature-complete instances of a web application.
Last updated June 11, 2022
Authenticating requests with JWT tokens stored in HTTPOnly cookies in Django
This article describes how you can use JWT tokens in Django applications with decoupled frontend JavaScript applications running the browser in secure way using HttpOnly cookies.
Last updated August 1, 2021
Using Stripe for recurring monthly SaaS subscriptions in a Django + Vue application
This article shares my experience learning and implementing the Stripe API for recurring monthly SaaS subscription payments in an application using Django and Vue.js
Last updated January 2, 2021
Session Authentication with Django, Django REST Framework and Nuxt
This article shows how to use session authentication with Django + Nuxt.js applications
Last updated January 1, 2021
Building web applications with Django, Django REST Framework, Nuxt.js and docker
This article documents my progress combining the Django web framework with Nuxt JS to build applications that have both great SEO and a smooth SPA user experience.
Last updated December 27, 2020
Weekend project update: Open SEC Data
This project uses Django, DRF and Celery to read public SEC filings from sec.gov, build it into an API which is consumed through a Vue.js application.
Last updated November 29, 2020
How to authenticate Django REST Framework API calls from a (Vue) JS client using Session Authentication and HttpOnly cookies
Last updated November 27, 2020
Some of the tools and workflows I use for local Django application development
Last updated September 16, 2020
Deploying Django applications with docker swarm on DigitalOcean using GitLab CI, Traefik, NGINX and REX-Ray
Last updated August 9, 2020
Deploying serverless Django applications to AWS with CDK on a tiny budget using Lambda, API Gateway, awsgi and the Lambda proxy pattern
Last updated August 1, 2020
Using AWS CDK, GitLab, Fargate and CloudFront for Django + Vue.js applications
Last updated June 2, 2020
Setup, Development and Deployment of a web app using Django, VueJS, VuePress, Docker, nginx, traefik and GitLab
Last updated January 9, 2019
Display, filter and export geographical data in a Django app with Leaflet, Mapbox, DataTables, Bootstrap 4 and Travis-CI
Last updated February 19, 2018
Detailed setup of a mini Django News App project with Bootstrap, AJAX, Celery and RabbitMQ
Last updated February 9, 2018
Automating Django deployment with a Deploy-to-Heroku button
Last updated November 11, 2017
Comparing different ways to build friend objects in Django
Last updated July 19, 2017
Setting up a Django app on Heroku
Last updated March 4, 2017