Backend

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I've been building web backends since ~2004 when they were just called websites. With these essays I want to share the hard lessons learned about serverless, databases, APIs, and the ops that keep them alive.

Backend articles

9 articles from 2010 · show all

October 2010

Doing nothing is the hardest thing ever

September 2010

Hard work is a total waste of time

August 2010

Programatically uploading to blobstore in python

Django protip #2: Forms are awesome

July 2010

Django protip #1: A better App structure

Small trick for seamless base64 password storage in django

March 2010

Yay my blog is up and running again! :D

February 2010

Splitting and merging django models with perfect transparency

January 2010

Python multiprocessing is fucking sweet