Django Template Language (DTL): A Beginner's Guide
The Django Template Language (DTL) is Django's syntax for HTML templates. This beginner's guide covers variables and dot lookups, tags vs filters, aut...
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Share Django Sessions Across Subdomains
Share a Django session and login across subdomains by setting SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN to a leading-dot domain, with a shared SECRET_KEY, session store, ...
Read articleImprove Page Speed & Core Web Vitals — Part 2
Part 2 of our Core Web Vitals guide goes deeper on the back end and asset pipeline: cut TTFB with Django query tuning and Redis caching, then shrink b...
Read articleSend Email with SendGrid on Heroku for Django
A 2026 guide to sending transactional email from a Django app on Heroku with SendGrid: API-key auth (the literal apikey username), SMTP and django-any...
Read articleMemcached Caching in Django: Setup & Best Practices
A 2026 guide to caching a Django 5.x project with Memcached. Configure the modern PyMemcacheCache backend (the unmaintained python-memcached Memcached...
Read articlePayU Payment Gateway Integration with Django
Integrate the PayU payment gateway with Django step by step: build the SHA-512 request hash, redirect to hosted checkout, verify the response hash ser...
Read articleRunning Django on PyPy for Performance: Is It Worth It?
PyPy's JIT can make CPU-bound, pure-Python Django code several times faster, but most web apps are I/O-bound, so switching interpreters often buys lit...
Read articleBuild an E-Commerce Store with Django Oscar
A practical 2026 guide to building a custom online store with Django Oscar 3.x: what Oscar is, when it beats Shopify or Saleor, the canonical install ...
Read articleParse Inbound Email in Django with SendGrid Inbound Parse
A current 2026 guide to receiving and parsing inbound email in Django with SendGrid's Inbound Parse Webhook — MX setup, the multipart POST fields, raw...
Read articleAutocomplete Search in Django with Haystack & Elasticsearch
How to build autocomplete (type-ahead) search in Django with django-haystack and Elasticsearch: the EdgeNgram analyzer, EdgeNgramField, SearchQuerySet...
Read articleDjango Celery + Social Auth: Async Pipeline Best Practices
Keep Django social login fast by offloading slow pipeline steps — avatar fetch, profile sync, welcome email — to Celery 5.x tasks, using the maintaine...
Read articleFull-Text Search in Django with Haystack & Elasticsearch
A practical 2026 guide to adding full-text search to Django with django-haystack and an Elasticsearch backend: configure HAYSTACK_CONNECTIONS, define ...
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