Insights
Our insights, views and announcements.
Women in tech - Django Girls, London 2019
Hi, I'm Rose, a member of the Project Management team at DabApps. My days are usually spent channelling the skills of my team in the creation of fantastic products that…
Rose Morgan
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The problem with laziness: minimising performance issues caused by Django's implicit database queries
Django's object-relational mapper (ORM) is a huge part of the reason for the framework's massive success. The ORM makes talking to databases easy by abstracting away the details of connections,…
Jamie Matthews
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Django models, encapsulation and data integrity
A design issue we've found when building large Django applications is that model instances lack any real encapsulation. As codebases grow it becomes difficult to make any cast-iron guarantees that…
Tom Christie
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Our First Kickstarter Campaign: Django REST framework 3
Over the last three years I've spent a large amount of my spare time dedicated to building an open-source Web API framework. The project has been growing in popularity, gaining…
Tom Christie
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Redesigning Django's generic class based views
Introducing django-vanilla-views: a simplified redesign of Django's generic class-based views. A recent thread on the Django developers mailing list has been discussing adding class hierarchy diagrams to the documentation for…
Tom Christie
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Web API performance: profiling Django REST framework
When discussing the scalability of Web services there seems to be a tendency for some developers to overly focus on the framework being used, based on the mistaken assumption that…
Tom Christie
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Some thoughts on learning Python, Django and Objective-C
Last June, I finished at Brighton University and started working at DabApps. Before this point I knew very little about Python, Django and Objective C. As the majority of our…
Max Hurl
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Performance Heisenbugs and Premature Optimisation
(definition from Wikipedia)
Recently we were in the midst of writing some heavy number-crunching code for a web app we are currently developing for a client. This system involves the…
Tony Aldridge
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Announcing our API backend services
Today we're announcing a new line of services for building bespoke Web APIs for our clients. Our API backend services are aimed at mobile and frontend development agencies who need…
Tom Christie
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Building a higher-level query API: the right way to use Django's ORM
This blog post is based on a talk given at the Brighton Python User Group on April 10th, 2012. Note: this post refers to a very old version of Django.…
Jamie Matthews
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