Sarthak Kumar – Medium

Oct 25, 2019

Django : Two Factor Authentication

Two-factor (2FA) or multi-factor authentication (MFA) is an additional security layer for your business — helping to address the vulnerabilities of a standard password-only approach. TOTP TOTP stands for Time-based One-Time Password. It’s a fairly simple algorithm that involves combining a shared secret key with the current time to generate a…

API

18 min read

Sep 24, 2019

Django : WebSockets and Channels

WebSockets is a technology that allows for opening an interactive communications session between a user’s browser and a server. With this technology, a user can send messages to a server and receive event-driven responses without requiring long-polling, i.e. without having to constantly check the server for a reply. Think about…

Python

5 min read

Aug 20, 2019

Django : Handling Periodic Tasks With Celery

What is Celery Beat? It combines Celery, a well-known task delegation tool, with a nifty scheduler called Beat. It can help you manage even the most tedious of tasks. As we know the work of software developers is filled with generating periodic reports, handling vast imports or exports, backups, frequent…

Django

6 min read

Jul 28, 2019

Django : Task Scheduling with Celery

Automation in Django is a developer’s dream. Tedious work such as creating database backup, reporting annual KPI, or even blasting email could be made a breeze. Through Celery — a well-known software in Python for delegating task — such action has been made possible. Celery is a task queue based…

Django

5 min read

Jun 9, 2019

PostgreSQL : A Small Introduction

PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types and functions. It is also one of the most used databases in the industry for production and deployment. Installation: Here we’ll install PostgreSQL 9.5.11 on Ubuntu…

Ubuntu

3 min read

May 14, 2019

Django : Redis 101

Redis is a versatile tool that can be very useful in our Python/Django projects.Through this blog my goal is to explain how Redis can be used in multiple different scenarios, with real examples of building counters, leaderboards, analytics’ tools, and a recommendation engine. The blog showcases practical examples of how…

Redis

7 min read

Apr 8, 2019

Python : Threading vs Multiprocessing

Both the threading and multiprocessing modules in python aim to do the same thing and that is to do a number of things at the same time, however the way that threading module goes about it and the multiprocessing module goes about it is very different. Before going deep into…

Programming

4 min read

Apr 2, 2019

Django : Custom User Model & Allauth for OAuth

Django ships with a built-in User model for authentication, however the official Django documentation highly recommends using a custom user model for new projects. The reason is if you want to make any changes to the User model down the road–for example adding a date of birth field–using a custom…

Django

8 min read

Mar 29, 2019

Django QuerySets & Code Optimization

From all the time i have been coding,i learned one thing and that is the code/program we write first is not always the best or the optimal solution. Django QuerySets are no exception to this . If a web request is stretching into seconds, 99% of the time the database…

Python

6 min read

Mar 23, 2019

Django: Request/Response Cycle

A web application or a website revolves around the request-response cycle and Django applications are no exception to this. But it is not just a two step process. Our Django applications needs to go through various stages to return the end user some result. To understand the Django framework better…

Django

7 min read