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What is AWS Cloud Formation?

AWS Cloud Formation is an AWS service that helps to automate the setup of AWS resources using template files.

What is an OpenAPI?

The OpenAPI Specification (OAS) defines a standard, language-agnostic interface to HTTP APIs which allows both humans and computers to discover and understand the capabilities of the service without access to source code, documentation, or through network traffic inspection.

Humanize - Django Utils

Django comes with a set of template filters to add a "human touch" to data. It is used to translate numbers and dates into a human readable format.

Django Redirects App

Django comes with an optional redirects application. It lets you store redirects in a database and handles the redirecting for you. It uses the HTTP response status code 301 Moved Permanently by default.

How to Use Django's Flatpages App

A flatpage is an object with a URL, title and content. Use it for one-off, special-case pages, such as “About” or “Privacy Policy” pages, that you want to store in a database but for which you don’t want to develop a custom Django application.

Django Designing Better Models

Models definition is one of the most important parts of your application. Something that makes all the difference is defining the field types properly

Using Environment Variables in Django

Python Decouple is a great library that helps you strictly separate the settings parameters from your source code. The idea is simple: Parameters related to the project, goes straight to the source code. Parameters related to an instance of the project, goes to an environment file.

How to create a virtual environment for Python

A virtual environment is a self-contained directory tree that contains dependencies required by different projects isolated to existing packages. By using virtual Python environments, applications can run in their own ‘sandbox’ in isolation of other Python applications

How To Install Python 3 on Mac OS

Python is a versatile language used for multi-purpose programming it is undoubtedly the most popular dynamic programming language that is being used today. Python is an excellent choice for beginners and experienced developers.