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Adventures in Hashistack
This is a quick prelude to a series of posts I’m planning that go through my journey experimenting with the various tools from Hashicorp that make up the platform I’m referring to as Hashistack. Specifically, I’m using Consul, Vault, and Nomad across three physical “servers”. These servers are actually Dell OptiPlex micro-form-factor computers with enough…
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Django Background Tasks (async)
Async is a general programming concept that is complex and difficult to understand and I definitely do not pretend that I understand even a fraction of the science behind it. But I do know that in web applications, there are long running tasks that you want to hand off to a background process without it…
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Django Learning Resources
Here are some of the key online resources I’ve discovered that have helped me with my Django journey… The official Django documentation is usually the first stop when tyring to figure out something new. There are four key areas of the docs to look at: tutorials, topic guides, reference guides and how-to guides. Django Chat…
