I’ve always loved being near the foothills of the Sierra Nevada — the way the morning sunlight filters through the trees, the smell of pine and damp earth after a […]
Job App Tracker AWS Promotion
Getting my application finally running on AWS was its own hurdle. AWS gives us so many choices, that we can easily suffer paralysis by analysis. That happened to me a […]
Production Readiness Features
When getting ready for a final move to production, there are a few things one needs to review: performance and monitoring. This brought out the last few items that I […]
Setting up AWS Production MariaDB
This was an extremely exciting and pivotal milestone: I “set up” my AWS Production MariaDB. Kind of. Honestly, the AWS RDS options can feel… pricy for somebody with limited funds. […]
Docker
Getting Docker set up for my project was a HUGE step for me. I’ve never played with docker before, yet it has shown up in at least two separate interview […]
Frontyard Garden Hardscape
Many people who know me know that I’m not a cold-weather person. Yes, in Sacramento, the winters are “cold”, with the lows in the lower 40s and sometimes in the […]
Django API Documentation
Honestly, most engineers and developers do not like to do that thing called “documentation”. It has been longer than I’m willing to admit here since I was in college. Back […]
React User Authentication
This month has been crazy learning about a TON of new and different “user security” topics. It was very overwhelming at times. Here are all of the different aspects of […]
Django RESTful User Functions and Data Security
This month has been crazy learning about a TON of new and different “user security” topics. It was very overwhelming at times with the variety of different solutions to chose […]
Django Adding Users into Database
Adding in multi-user support was no easy feat! I’m used to the agile development of multi-sprint practices in other MVC frameworks where you can add and change any module or […]