Gulp is a task runner which uses Node.js. For example concats javascript and css, minifies css and javascript. Gulp plug-ins are designed to do one thing only. It has basic functionality such as file watching built-in. It uses leaner, simpler JavaScript code, and Tasks are executed with maximum concurrency.

After Installing Elastic Search in production, many new developers leave it unconfigured. In this Post, we will look into important config file changes and its implications

This package uses double-entry bookkeeping where every transaction is recorded twice (once for the source and once for the destination). This ensures the books always balance and there is full audit trail of all transactional activity.

Using regular expressions within Nginx we can bind urls to particular application servers, below we will configure wordpress blog and django site to be deployed on same domain name with each having their respective application servers i.e. ‘fastcgi’ for wordpress and ‘uwsgi’ for django.

Using GPlus integration, we can get the user verified email id, general information, friends in a less span of time, and user can also share articles.

These Following steps are needed for GPlus integration:
1. creating google app
2. Authenticating user and getting access token.
3. Get user information using access token.
4. Get user friends list.

The quick way to get/extract text from PDFs in Python is with the Python library "slate". Slate is a Python package that simplifies the process of extracting text. In this post, we will see how to get/extract from pdf's.

When You have an application that is serving Huge Customer Base, so will be your Traffic. Sometimes The Application simply stops responding. We can use Load Balancer which distributes the Traffic it recieves between the multiple VPS running the same application.

In this blog, we will see how to integrate Django and PayU Payment Gateway. To integrate with PayU, we have package called "django-payu" - a pluggable Django application.

GitHub Repository: django-payu
Documentaion: django-payu.readthedocs.org

Install:
$ pip install django-payu

Running Django with PyPy to boost performance

Oscar is an open-source ecommerce framework for Django. Django Oscar provides a base platform to build an online shop. Oscar is built as a highly customisable and extendable framework. It supports Pluggable tax calculations, Per-customer pricing, Multi-currency etc.