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Practical articles on Django, Python, AWS, and software development. 60 articles

Freelance Django Developer Rates in 2026: What You'll Actually Pay

A freelance Django developer costs $15–150/hr depending on location and seniority. Here's an honest breakdown by region…

For startups and solo-founder projects, a full stack developer almost always delivers faster and cheaper than two speci…

Deploying Django to EC2 takes about 2 hours if you know the steps and days if you don't. Here's the complete guide: ins…

7+ years building production systems. Remote. Starting at $20/hr.

Type hints eliminate an entire class of runtime bugs and make codebases self-documenting. Here's how to use them effect…

Strawberry is now the recommended way to do GraphQL in Django because it uses Python type annotations natively. Here's …

Most SaaS apps need multi-tenancy and Django supports all three main patterns. Here's when to use shared schema, separa…

Django on Lambda works but has real tradeoffs most tutorials skip. Here's an honest guide: cold starts, database connec…

A working GitHub Actions workflow for Django takes 30 minutes to set up and saves hours of manual deployment. Here's th…

Every production Django app that handles file uploads needs S3 or an equivalent — never the web server's local disk. He…